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Jamaica Avenue & 218th Street, Queens

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  • Queens: Jamaica Avenue - 218th Street, 1925

    Queens: Jamaica Avenue - 218th Street

    1925

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Queens: Jamaica Avenue - 218th Street, 1925

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Queens: Jamaica Avenue - 218th Street

1925

Jamaica Avenue, at the S.W. corner of 218th Street, showing C. Scudorfi's country store. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection April, 1925

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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