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Beach 20th Street & Seagirt Avenue, Queens

4 historical photos taken here between 1923 and 1924, oldest first.

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  • Queens: Beach 20th Street - Seagirt Avenue, 1923

    Queens: Beach 20th Street - Seagirt Avenue

    1923

  • Queens: Beach 20th Street - Seagirt Avenue, 1923–1924

    Queens: Beach 20th Street - Seagirt Avenue

    1923; 1924

  • Queens: Beach 20th Street - Seagirt Avenue, 1923–1924

    Queens: Beach 20th Street - Seagirt Avenue

    1923; 1924

  • Queens: Beach 20th Street - Seagirt Avenue, 1923–1924

    Queens: Beach 20th Street - Seagirt Avenue

    1923; 1924

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Queens: Beach 20th Street - Seagirt Avenue, 1923

Photo 1 of 4 at Beach 20th Street & Seagirt Avenue, Queens

Queens: Beach 20th Street - Seagirt Avenue

1923

Beach 20th Street, west side, between Seagirt Ave., and Plainview Ave., showing the property of D.H. McCabe in 1873. January 1923. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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