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Queens: 78th Street - 57th Avenue
1934

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Queens: 78th Street - 57th Avenue

1934

78th Street, north of Fifty-eighth Ave. to Fifty-seventh Ave. The Caldwell Riding Academy occupies the barn on the extreme left. A group of the Brooklyn Union Gas Company tanks occupy the background. August 1934. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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