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Flushing Avenue & Metropolitan Avenue, Queens

7 historical photos taken here between 1922 and 1929, oldest first.

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  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - Flushing Avenue, 1922

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - Flushing Avenue

    1922

  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - Flushing Avenue, 1922

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - Flushing Avenue

    1922

  • Queens: Flushing Avenue - Metropolitan Avenue, 1922–1929

    Queens: Flushing Avenue - Metropolitan Avenue

    1922; 1929

  • Queens: Flushing Avenue - Metropolitan Avenue, 1922–1929

    Queens: Flushing Avenue - Metropolitan Avenue

    1922; 1929

  • Queens: Flushing Avenue - Metropolitan Avenue, 1922–1929

    Queens: Flushing Avenue - Metropolitan Avenue

    1922; 1929

  • Queens: Flushing Avenue - Metropolitan Avenue, 1922–1928

    Queens: Flushing Avenue - Metropolitan Avenue

    1922; 1928

  • Queens: Flushing Avenue - Metropolitan Avenue, 1922–1928

    Queens: Flushing Avenue - Metropolitan Avenue

    1922; 1928

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Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - Flushing Avenue, 1922

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Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - Flushing Avenue

1922

Metropolitan Avenue, (foreground, tracks thereon), between Flushing Avenue (left) and 53rd Street (right, not shown), showing at the right rear views of homes on the last mentioned Street. At the left is a small home on the north side of the second mentioned Avenue. At the intersection of the aforementioned Avenues, in 1852, stood a tollgate. This area was once known, as Oceanville. This is a set of two views. 1922 Views 1 and 2 Eugene L. Armbruster Collection

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