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  • Queens: 111th Street - 54th Avenue, 1940

    Queens: 111th Street - 54th Avenue

    1940

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: 111th Street - 54th Avenue, 1940

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Queens: 111th Street - 54th Avenue

1940

111th Street, at the N.W. corner of 54th Avenue, showing "Mary's Parking." Every available lot in this area was converted by its owner into an automobile parking space for the duration of the New York World's Fair of 1939-40. P. L. Sperr June 23, 1940

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