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Queens Boulevard & 57th Avenue

20 historical photos taken here between 1922 and 1936, oldest first.

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  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue, 1922–1935

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue

    1922; 1935

  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue, 1922–1935

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue

    1922; 1935

  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue, 1923-04

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue

    1923-04

  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue, 1924

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue

    1924

  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue, 1924

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue

    1924

  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue, 1924-02-08

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue

    1924-02-08

  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue, 1924-08

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue

    1924-08

  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Road, 1924

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Road

    1924

  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue, 1924

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue

    1924

  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue, 1924

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue

    1924

  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue, 1925-07

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue

    1925-07

  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue, 1928–1936

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue

    1928; 1934; 1936

  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue, 1928–1936

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue

    1928; 1934; 1936

  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue, 1928–1936

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue

    1928; 1934; 1936

  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue, 1928–1936

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue

    1928; 1934; 1936

  • Queens: 57th Avenue - Queens Boulevard, 1924–1933

    Queens: 57th Avenue - Queens Boulevard

    1924; 1933

  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue, 1922–1933

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue

    1922; 1923; 1924; 1926; 1933

  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue, 1922–1933

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue

    1922; 1923; 1924; 1926; 1933

  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue, 1922–1933

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue

    1922; 1923; 1924; 1926; 1933

  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue, 1922–1933

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue

    1922; 1923; 1924; 1926; 1933

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Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue, 1924-08

Photo 7 of 20 at Queens Boulevard & 57th Avenue

Queens: Queens Boulevard - 57th Avenue

1924-08

Queens Boulevard, west from Fifty-seventh Avenue, showing an area of Queens Boulevard prior to its widening. View No. 1 shows in the foreground No. 58 (old No.) Queens Boulevard at the S.W. corner of above Boulevard and Fifty-sixth Avenue. It was the property of one Arnoldi prior to 1873. Also seen in this view is the steeple of the new First Presbyterian Church of Newtown. Its steeple has since been removed. View No. 2 shows the north side of the Boulevard. The extension of Mrs. Raymond's house at the right foreground is west of Fifty-sixth Avenue. (Laconia Street also known as Horsebrook Road). View No. 3 shows the house alone prior to its removal. View No. 2 also shows the old First Presbyterian Church in the background. View No. 4 shows the house according to E.L. Armbruster to now, 1925, be on the north (west) side of Fifty-seventh Avenue (Caldwell Avenue) about 50 feet west (south) of Van Horn Street. However it does not appear in the 1929 Atlas of Queens County. April 1923. View 2: August 1924. View 3: February 8, 1924. View 4: July 1925. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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