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Jamaica Avenue & 125th Street, Queens

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  • Queens: Jamaica Avenue - 125th Street, 1925

    Queens: Jamaica Avenue - 125th Street

    1925

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: Jamaica Avenue - 125th Street, 1925

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Queens: Jamaica Avenue - 125th Street

1925

Jamaica Ave. (elevated structure thereon), east from 125th to 126th Streets, showing in the background at the corner the P. Opper Hotel of 1891. It was demolished in March 1926. April 1925. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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