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24th Road & 21st Street, Queens

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  • Queens: 24th Road - 21st Street, 1922

    Queens: 24th Road - 21st Street

    1922

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: 24th Road - 21st Street, 1922

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Queens: 24th Road - 21st Street

1922

24th Road (foreground, not shown), east of 21st Street (left, not shown), showing Fairbanks' old water tower (erected by Ed. Woolsey) in back of old 41 Cedar Place (now 24th Road). In the background are seen the rears of homes facing on Twenty-fourth Ave. Eugene L. Ambruster Collection. 1922.

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