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White Plains Road & Lydig Avenue, Bronx

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  • Bronx: White Plains Road - Lydig Avenue, 1928

    Bronx: White Plains Road - Lydig Avenue

    1928

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Bronx: White Plains Road - Lydig Avenue, 1928

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Bronx: White Plains Road - Lydig Avenue

1928

White Plains Road, east side, between Lydig Ave. and Pelham Parkway South, showing the ruin of an old stone house on the former John Jacob Astor estate. July 28, 1928. P. L. Sperr.

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