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Main Street & 59th Avenue, Queens

2 historical photos taken here in 1936, oldest first.

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  • Queens: Main Street - 59th Avenue, 1936

    Queens: Main Street - 59th Avenue

    1936

  • Queens: Main Street - 59th Avenue, 1936

    Queens: Main Street - 59th Avenue

    1936

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Queens: Main Street - 59th Avenue, 1936

Photo 2 of 2 at Main Street & 59th Avenue, Queens

Queens: Main Street - 59th Avenue

1936

Main Street, west side, south from 59th Avenue (foreground), showing the area where new housing developments will be erected. The dwellings under construction in the center background are on Horace Harding Boulevard, Main Street being on the extreme left and is a new thoroughfare here. P. L. Sperr April 19, 1936 Views 1,2

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