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Trotting Course Lane & Metropolitan Avenue, Queens

2 historical photos taken here in 1923, oldest first.

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  • Queens: Trotting Course Lane - Metropolitan Avenue, 1923

    Queens: Trotting Course Lane - Metropolitan Avenue

    1923

  • Queens: Trotting Course Lane - Metropolitan Avenue, 1923

    Queens: Trotting Course Lane - Metropolitan Avenue

    1923

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Queens: Trotting Course Lane - Metropolitan Avenue, 1923

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Queens: Trotting Course Lane - Metropolitan Avenue

1923

Trotting Course Lane at the S.W. corner of Metropolitan Avenue, showing in two views the J. Vanderveer barns and house. The barns seen in view No. 2 are located on the north side of Seventy-third Avenue and extend almost to Orville Place. The house is directly in the street line of 72nd Avenue, near the first mentioned location. In the background in view No. 1 is seen the elevated Long Island Railroad right of way. April 1923. Views 1 and 2 Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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