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Cooper Avenue & 72nd Place, Queens

2 historical photos taken here between 1890 and 1926, oldest first.

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  • Queens: Cooper Avenue - 72nd Place, 1890–1923

    Queens: Cooper Avenue - 72nd Place

    1890; 1922; 1923

  • Queens: Cooper Avenue - 72nd Place, 1926

    Queens: Cooper Avenue - 72nd Place

    1926

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Queens: Cooper Avenue - 72nd Place, 1890–1923

Photo 1 of 2 at Cooper Avenue & 72nd Place, Queens

Queens: Cooper Avenue - 72nd Place

1890; 1922; 1923

Cooper Ave., at the N.W. corner of 72nd Place (white house thereon), showing the former J. S. Siney house of 1860. Edward Brochere was a later occupant. In 1927 the Glendale Square Club was housed here. April 1923. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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