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43rd Street & 20th Road, Queens

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  • Queens: 43rd Street - 20th Road, 1927

    Queens: 43rd Street - 20th Road

    1927

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: 43rd Street - 20th Road, 1927

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Queens: 43rd Street - 20th Road

1927

43rd Street, at the S.E. corner of 20th Road, the Old Bowery Bay Road, showing a fashionable private home of mid-nineteenth century construction. It appears on an 1891 atlas, but ownership is not given. P. L. Sperr June 3, 1927

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