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58th Street & 56th Avenue, Queens

2 historical photos taken here between 1922 and 1923, oldest first.

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  • Queens: 58th Street - 56th Avenue, 1922–1923

    Queens: 58th Street - 56th Avenue

    1922; 1923

  • Queens: 58th Street - 56th Avenue, 1922–1923

    Queens: 58th Street - 56th Avenue

    1922; 1923

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: 58th Street - 56th Avenue, 1922–1923

Photo 1 of 2 at 58th Street & 56th Avenue, Queens

Queens: 58th Street - 56th Avenue

1922; 1923

58th Street (formerly Betts Ave. and also Covert Street, foreground not seen.) at Fifty-sixth Ave. (Note that the 2½ story wing was in line of the last mentioned Ave. The house was not standing in 1929.) The owners of this house were Charles G. Covert from 1860-1873, and Cord Meyer in 1891. It was formerly designated as 246 Betts Ave. 1922. View 2: March 1923. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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