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Covert Street & Irving Avenue, Queens

2 historical photos taken here between 1924 and 1929, oldest first.

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  • Queens: Irving Avenue - Covert Street, 1924

    Queens: Irving Avenue - Covert Street

    1924

  • Queens: Covert Street - Irving Avenue, 1929

    Queens: Covert Street - Irving Avenue

    1929

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: Covert Street - Irving Avenue, 1929

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Queens: Covert Street - Irving Avenue

1929

Covert Street (left foreground; under construction), at the S.W. corner of Irving Ave. (right, partially seen), showing in the foreground a vacant corner upon which, in 1928, was erected a three story brick apartment. The factory at the right, located on the S.W. corner of Eldert Street (parallel to Covert Street) and Irving Ave., is that of Wm. Greilich and Sons. December 1929. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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