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Jackson Avenue & Crane Street, Queens

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  • Queens: Jackson Avenue - Crane Street, 1936

    Queens: Jackson Avenue - Crane Street

    1936

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: Jackson Avenue - Crane Street, 1936

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Queens: Jackson Avenue - Crane Street

1936

Jackson Ave., (background) south side, east of Crane Street, to about Crescent Street, showing overhead the elevated branch of the I.R.T. Subway on 23rd Street. At the left is shown the N.W. corner of Twenty-sixth and Jackson Aves. October 16, 1936. W.F.A. Photo Federal Art Project.

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