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Queens: Colonial Avenue

1923; 1928

Queens: Colonial Avenue

1) Flushing Meadow Park (Queens): The Corona ash dumps before the area was developed into the World's Fair Grounds of 1939-40. The view is from Colonial Avenue. View 2 is east across Flushing Creek from 111th Street. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection May, 1923

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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