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Hollis Avenue & Cross Island Boulevard, Queens

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  • Queens: Hollis Avenue - Cross Island Boulevard, 1925

    Queens: Hollis Avenue - Cross Island Boulevard

    1925

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Queens: Hollis Avenue - Cross Island Boulevard, 1925

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Queens: Hollis Avenue - Cross Island Boulevard

1925

Hollis Ave., south side, between Cross Island Boulevard and 205th Street, showing the G.O. Ditmas house of 1873. C.O. Ditmas was the owner in 1891. April 1925. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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