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Burns Street & 75th Road, Queens

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  • Queens: Burns Street - 75th Road, 1930

    Queens: Burns Street - 75th Road

    1930

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Queens: Burns Street - 75th Road, 1930

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Queens: Burns Street - 75th Road

1930

Burns Street, between 75th Road and Ascan Avenue, Forest Hills, showing two-story homes on the north side of the street and a lot--277 by 173 feet--on the south side. The view is north from Beechknoll Road and shows, in the center background, a ten-story building, called the Holland House. It is on the other side of the Long Island Railroad tracks in the depression and is on the N.E. corner of Austin Street and 73rd Road. Joseph P. Day Photographic Dept. About 1930

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