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59th Street & 47th Avenue, Queens

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  • Queens: 59th Street - 47th Avenue, 1923

    Queens: 59th Street - 47th Avenue

    1923

  • Queens: 59th Street - 47th Avenue, 1923

    Queens: 59th Street - 47th Avenue

    1923

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: 59th Street - 47th Avenue, 1923

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Queens: 59th Street - 47th Avenue

1923

59th Street (formerly Holmes Ave., along line of brick wall), from Forty-seventh Ave. (foreground, not constructed), to Forty-eighth Ave., showing in the center of view, a dilapidated structure formerly known as the Woodside Brewery. In 1909 it was known as the Consumers Brewing Company, and in 1929 the Remo Manufacturing Company. The Building partially shown at the right foreground is at the S.W. corner of Forty-seventh Ave. (foreground), and 59th Street. May 1923. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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