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Riverside Drive & 121st Street, Manhattan

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  • Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 121st Street, 1926

    Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 121st Street

    1926

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 121st Street, 1926

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Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 121st Street

1926

RIVERSIDE PARK. Riverside Drive, north from and including 121st Street, showing Grant's Tomb, the Hudson River and part of the New Jersey Shore. About 1926.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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