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20th Avenue & 21st Street, Queens

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  • Queens: 20th Avenue - 21st Street, 1932

    Queens: 20th Avenue - 21st Street

    1932

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Queens: 20th Avenue - 21st Street, 1932

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Queens: 20th Avenue - 21st Street

1932

20th Avenue, north side, at 21st Street, showing some of the buildings of the Astoria Light and Power Company (1928 map) and old houses on the former extensive Woolsey property at Lawrence Point, on the East River. P. L. Sperr March 23, 1932

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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