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Crescent Street & 21st Avenue, Queens

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  • Queens: Crescent Street - 21st Avenue, 1925

    Queens: Crescent Street - 21st Avenue

    1925

  • Queens: Crescent Street - 21st Avenue, 1932

    Queens: Crescent Street - 21st Avenue

    1932

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: Crescent Street - 21st Avenue, 1925

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Queens: Crescent Street - 21st Avenue

1925

Crescent Street, east side, between 21st Ave. (left) and Ditmars Boulevard, showing the William H. Wolcott house in 1873. F.H. Wolcott removed in 1849 from Flushing to this house. In 1934, it was the Seacrest Sanitarium, and Dr. Kendrick was the owner. April 1925. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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