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Beach 19th Street & Water Street, Queens

2 historical photos taken here in 1923, oldest first.

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  • Queens: Beach 19th Street - Water Street, 1923

    Queens: Beach 19th Street - Water Street

    1923

  • Queens: Beach 19th Street - Water Street, 1923

    Queens: Beach 19th Street - Water Street

    1923

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Queens: Beach 19th Street - Water Street, 1923

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Queens: Beach 19th Street - Water Street

1923

(1) Beach 19th Street, east side, south of New Haven Ave. to Brookhaven Ave., showing the Hotel Seminole, formerly Mac Saun's Villa. This building was known as the Atlantic Hotel in 1873, and Mott's Hotel in 1891. Benjamin C. Mott once operated this place. Eugene L. Armbruster. (2) The same, viewed northward. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection. May 1923. January 1923.

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