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Jackson Avenue & 44th Drive, Queens

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  • Queens: Jackson Avenue - 44th Drive, 1940

    Queens: Jackson Avenue - 44th Drive

    1940

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Queens: Jackson Avenue - 44th Drive, 1940

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Queens: Jackson Avenue - 44th Drive

1940

Jackson Avenue, at 44th Drive, looking north. This small public area is known as Patrick Jerome Gleason Square. September 5, 1940 P.L. Sperr

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