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Manhattan: 42nd Street (East) - 1st Avenue

1940

Manhattan: 42nd Street (East) - 1st Avenue

East 42nd Street, east from First Avenue, showing the terminus of this street at the East River, Under construction at the right is the Midtown-Queens Tunnel. 1: February 1940 2&3: Sept. 28, 1940 George D. Chinn P. L. Sperr

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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