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59th Avenue & 59th Street, Queens

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  • Queens: 59th Avenue - 59th Street, 1922

    Queens: 59th Avenue - 59th Street

    1922

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: 59th Avenue - 59th Street, 1922

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Queens: 59th Avenue - 59th Street

1922

Fifty-ninth Ave., north side, east of 59th Street (right, not shown), showing one of a group of Cord Meyers' houses. His property extended as far north as Grand Ave., west as far as the Long Island Railroad, south as far as 59th Road, and east as far as 59th Place. 1922. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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