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215th Street & 42nd Avenue, Queens

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  • Queens: 215th Street - 42nd Avenue, 1927

    Queens: 215th Street - 42nd Avenue

    1927

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Queens: 215th Street - 42nd Avenue, 1927

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Queens: 215th Street - 42nd Avenue

1927

215th Street; east at 42nd Avenue (vantage point), Bayside, showing the Long Island Railroad tracks, looking eastward, the freight station, and the lumber yard of the queensborough Lumber Company. P. L. Sperr April 12, 1927

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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