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Cooper Avenue & 59th Street, Queens

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  • Queens: Cooper Avenue - 59th Street, 1923

    Queens: Cooper Avenue - 59th Street

    1923

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Queens: Cooper Avenue - 59th Street, 1923

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Queens: Cooper Avenue - 59th Street

1923

Cooper Ave., east of 59th Street to Eightieth Ave. (formerly Alden Ave.) Cooper Avenue veers northeastward in the background. Peaked two story structure at right background was No. 29 Cooper Ave. (now on Eighth Ave.) May 1923. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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