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54th Street & Roosevelt Avenue, Queens

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  • Queens: 54th Street - Roosevelt Avenue, 1924–1925

    Queens: 54th Street - Roosevelt Avenue

    1924; 1925

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: 54th Street - Roosevelt Avenue, 1924–1925

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Queens: 54th Street - Roosevelt Avenue

1924; 1925

54th Street (foreground, unpaved), between Roosevelt Ave. (left) and Skillman Ave. (right), showing in the foreground the G. Susdorff house from 1860-1873. It was gone in April 1925. In the background are homes on 52nd Street. March 1924. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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