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23rd Drive & 43rd Street, Queens

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  • Queens: 23rd Drive - 43rd Street, 1927

    Queens: 23rd Drive - 43rd Street

    1927

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: 23rd Drive - 43rd Street, 1927

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Queens: 23rd Drive - 43rd Street

1927

23rd Drive, east from 43rd Street, showing old frame dwellings and the end of this old street. It was formerly called Amagansett Street and prior to that (1891 and 1873) Nassau Avenue. P. L. Sperr June 11, 1927

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