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54th Avenue & 58th Street, Queens

3 historical photos taken here in 1925, oldest first.

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  • General view - Queens - 58th Street - 54th Drive (East)., 1925

    General view - Queens - 58th Street - 54th Drive (East).

    1925

  • General view - Queens - 58th Street - 54th Drive (East)., 1925

    General view - Queens - 58th Street - 54th Drive (East).

    1925

  • Queens: 54th Avenue - 58th Street

    Queens: 54th Avenue - 58th Street

    Unknown

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: 54th Avenue - 58th Street

Photo 3 of 3 at 54th Avenue & 58th Street, Queens

Queens: 54th Avenue - 58th Street

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Fifty-fourth Ave. (Newtown Ave.), at the N.E. corner of 58th Street, showing the original Betts homestead erected by Captain Richard Betts about 1656 in Newtown. The site upon which it stood is now a part of Mt. Zion Cemetery. Arthur White.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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