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79th Street & 31st Avenue, Queens

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  • Queens: 79th Street - 31st Avenue, 1923

    Queens: 79th Street - 31st Avenue

    1923

  • Queens: 79th Street - 31st Avenue, 1924

    Queens: 79th Street - 31st Avenue

    1924

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: 79th Street - 31st Avenue, 1923

Photo 1 of 2 at 79th Street & 31st Avenue, Queens

Queens: 79th Street - 31st Avenue

1923

79th Street east side, between Thirty-first and Thirty-second Avenues. This house when Trains Meadow Road was in existent was at the N.E. corner of the last mentioned Road and 79th Street. The house formerly of frame was owned by J. Peterson in 1873 and Mrs. Obell in 1896. April 1923. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection

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