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Cypress Avenue & Hancock Street, Queens

2 historical photos taken here between 1922 and 1925, oldest first.

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  • Queens: Cypress Avenue - Hancock Street, 1922–1925

    Queens: Cypress Avenue - Hancock Street

    1922; 1925

  • Queens: Cypress Avenue - Hancock Street, 1922–1925

    Queens: Cypress Avenue - Hancock Street

    1922; 1925

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: Cypress Avenue - Hancock Street, 1922–1925

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Queens: Cypress Avenue - Hancock Street

1922; 1925

Cypress Ave. (tracks thereon), west of Hancock Street, showing in the foreground an old hotel (white) operated by the following owners: one Beck, 1860. (He erected it in 1859 on land purchased of Nicholas Wyckoff.); Stroebel, in 1873; and one Kreuscher, from 1880-1912. 1922. View 2: April 1925. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection. View 1 View 2 - Neg. # 1217

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