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69th Street & 59th Drive, Queens

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  • Queens: 69th Street - 59th Drive, 1923

    Queens: 69th Street - 59th Drive

    1923

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Queens: 69th Street - 59th Drive, 1923

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Queens: 69th Street - 59th Drive

1923

Sixty-ninth Street, north from about 59th Drive, showing at the left foreground a part of the Olivet Cemetery. The house therein was the Gerner house. At the right is the Herte house. Ernest Nurge is the present owner. April 1923. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection

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