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Cornelia Street & Myrtle Avenue, Queens

3 historical photos taken here between 1923 and 1925, oldest first.

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  • Queens: Cypress Avenue - Myrtle Avenue, 1923

    Queens: Cypress Avenue - Myrtle Avenue

    1923

  • Queens: Cornelia Street - Myrtle Avenue, 1925

    Queens: Cornelia Street - Myrtle Avenue

    1925

  • Queens: Cypress Avenue - Cornelia Street, 1925

    Queens: Cypress Avenue - Cornelia Street

    1925

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: Cypress Avenue - Myrtle Avenue, 1923

Photo 1 of 3 at Cornelia Street & Myrtle Avenue, Queens

Queens: Cypress Avenue - Myrtle Avenue

1923

Cypress Ave. (tracks thereon), south side, east of Myrtle Ave. (foreground not seen), showing in the center of the view Captain Louis Dohling's roadhouse. April 1923. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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