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73rd Avenue & 217th Street, Queens

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  • Queens: 73rd Avenue - 217th Street, 1922

    Queens: 73rd Avenue - 217th Street

    1922

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Queens: 73rd Avenue - 217th Street, 1922

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Queens: 73rd Avenue - 217th Street

1922

73rd Avenue, north side, at 217th Street, showing the Hicks House. It was in the Hicks family from the 1850's to 1909. 73rd Avenue is the former Black Stump Road. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection 1922

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