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38th Street & 20th Avenue, Queens

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  • Queens: 38th Street - 20th Avenue, 1924

    Queens: 38th Street - 20th Avenue

    1924

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: 38th Street - 20th Avenue, 1924

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Queens: 38th Street - 20th Avenue

1924

2022 - 38th Street (center of view), between Twenty-first Ave. (left) and Twentieth Ave. (right), showing, in the left background, the George Kouwenhoven, John Alsop and Peter Rapelye houses. On the right of the enumerated 2-story structure is the gas tank of the Astoria Light, Heat and Power Company. Photographers vantage point is on Steinway Ave. About 1924. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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