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60th Street & Metropolitan Avenue, Queens

2 historical photos taken here in 1922, oldest first.

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  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 60th Street, 1922

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 60th Street

    1922

  • Queens: 60th Street - Metropolitan Avenue, 1922

    Queens: 60th Street - Metropolitan Avenue

    1922

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: 60th Street - Metropolitan Avenue, 1922

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Queens: 60th Street - Metropolitan Avenue

1922

60th Street (formerly Thompson also John Street), east side, south from Metropolitan Avenue, shown at the S.E. corner a frame structure known as Reis Hotel in 1904. It was still standing in 1934. At the right background near Bleeker Street is P.S. No. 71. 1922. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection

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