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  • Manhattan: 1st Ave. - 86th St., 1934

    Manhattan: 1st Ave. - 86th St.

    1934

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Manhattan: 1st Ave. - 86th St., 1934

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Manhattan: 1st Ave. - 86th St.

1934

First Avenue, north from, but not including, 86th Street, showing men at work removing the tracks of the Second Avenue Railway. October 9, 1934. P. L. Sperr.

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