Queens: Roosevelt Avenue - Main Street

1925; 1935

Queens: Roosevelt Avenue - Main Street

Roosevelt Avenue, north side,east from near Main Street, showing two old frame houses with stuccoed fronts, the Consolidated Edison Company Building, No. 136-21, and the tower of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Flushing. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection June, 1925 2) A view of the second of the two old dwellings seen in view 1. The first of the two was demolished when a 6-story office building , housing the Bank of Manhattan, was erected on the site. P.L.Sperr August 21, 1935 3) Viewing westward on Roosevelt Avenue, from near the Consolidated Edison Building. The building occupies the site of the A.L. Fitch house. Views 1 and 3 show also subway construction operations. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection June, 1925

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection