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51st Street & Broadway, Queens

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  • Queens: 51st Street - Broadway, 1923

    Queens: 51st Street - Broadway

    1923

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: 51st Street - Broadway, 1923

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Queens: 51st Street - Broadway

1923

51st Street, north of Broadway, showing the F. Weher house of 1873. This house does not appear in 1928. Incidently this street is the dividing line between Long Island City and Newtown. April 1923. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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