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Queens: 50th Avenue - 42nd Street
1923

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Queens: 50th Avenue - 42nd Street

1923

50th Ave. (through front of building), between 42nd (left) and 43rd Streets (right), showing Celtic Park Great New York Athletic Association. Note that half of this hotel is in the line of Fiftieth Ave. It was still standing in 1928. This hotel was erected on the site of the Peter Debevoise farmhouse. March 1923. Eugene L. Ambruster Collection.

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