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Queens: Atlantic Avenue - Rockaway Boulevard
1930

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Queens: Atlantic Avenue - Rockaway Boulevard

1930

Atlantic Avenue, east from Rockaway Boulevard, showing the main line of the Long Island Railroad, which divides the avenue into two separate lanes, and the Union Course railroad station. The vantage point is Rockaway Boulevard which at this point is a wooden bridge spanning the railroad tracks. L Sperr July 27, 1930

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