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2nd Street & 27th Avenue, Queens

12 historical photos taken here between 1922 and 1940, oldest first.

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  • Queens: 2nd Street - 27th Avenue, 1922

    Queens: 2nd Street - 27th Avenue

    1922

  • Queens: 2nd Street - 27th Avenue, 1923–1940

    Queens: 2nd Street - 27th Avenue

    1923; 1931; 1940

  • Queens: 2nd Street - 27th Avenue, 1923–1940

    Queens: 2nd Street - 27th Avenue

    1923; 1931; 1940

  • Queens: 2nd Street - 27th Avenue, 1923–1940

    Queens: 2nd Street - 27th Avenue

    1923; 1931; 1940

  • Queens: 2nd Street - 27th Avenue, 1923–1940

    Queens: 2nd Street - 27th Avenue

    1923; 1931; 1940

  • Queens: 2nd Street - 27th Avenue

    Queens: 2nd Street - 27th Avenue

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  • Queens: 2nd Street - 27th Avenue

    Queens: 2nd Street - 27th Avenue

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  • Queens: 2nd Street - 27th Avenue

    Queens: 2nd Street - 27th Avenue

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  • Queens: 2nd Street - 27th Avenue

    Queens: 2nd Street - 27th Avenue

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  • Queens: 2nd Street - 27th Avenue

    Queens: 2nd Street - 27th Avenue

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  • Queens: 27th Avenue - 2nd Street

    Queens: 27th Avenue - 2nd Street

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  • Queens: 2nd Street - 27th Avenue

    Queens: 2nd Street - 27th Avenue

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: 2nd Street - 27th Avenue, 1922

Photo 1 of 12 at 2nd Street & 27th Avenue, Queens

Queens: 2nd Street - 27th Avenue

1922

2nd Street, at and adjoining the Northeast Corner of 27th Ave. (foreground), showing in the foreground the Wade house. Beyond it was the home of Benjamin S.H. Maillefert from 1867-1882. Here Elizabeth his daughter married Fred Mackill. 1922. Eugene L. Ambruster Collection.

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