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75th Avenue & 164th Street, Queens

2 historical photos taken here in 1922, oldest first.

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  • Queens: 75th Avenue - 164th Street, 1922

    Queens: 75th Avenue - 164th Street

    1922

  • Queens: 75th Avenue - 164th Street, 1922

    Queens: 75th Avenue - 164th Street

    1922

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Queens: 75th Avenue - 164th Street, 1922

Photo 2 of 2 at 75th Avenue & 164th Street, Queens

Queens: 75th Avenue - 164th Street

1922

Seventy-fifth Ave., north side (also known as Quarrelsome Lane, also Eisemann Ave., and Hell Fire Lane), east of 164th Street (about on the line of 167th Street), showing the L. Walters house in 1873, and that of Henry Kiessel from 1891 to 1909. The house does not appear in the 1928 Queens Atlas. 1922. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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