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Kissena Boulevard & Franklin Avenue, Queens

2 historical photos taken here between 1923 and 1927, oldest first.

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  • Queens: Kissena Boulevard - Franklin Avenue, 1923

    Queens: Kissena Boulevard - Franklin Avenue

    1923

  • Queens: Kissena Boulevard - Franklin Avenue, 1927

    Queens: Kissena Boulevard - Franklin Avenue

    1927

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Queens: Kissena Boulevard - Franklin Avenue, 1927

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Queens: Kissena Boulevard - Franklin Avenue

1927

Kissena Boulevard, east side, north from Franklin to Maple Avenues, showing a row of private homes. They all appear in Wolverton's 1891 map of Queens County. Kissena Boulevard was then known as Jamaica Avenue. April 8, 1927 P. L. Sperr

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