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Main Street & 41st Avenue, Queens

11 historical photos taken here between 1906 and 1927, oldest first.

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  • Queens: Main Street - Kissena Boulevard, 1906

    Queens: Main Street - Kissena Boulevard

    1906

  • Queens: Main Street - 41st Avenue, 1922–1924

    Queens: Main Street - 41st Avenue

    1922; 1924

  • Queens: Kissena Boulevard - 41st Avenue, 1922

    Queens: Kissena Boulevard - 41st Avenue

    1922

  • Queens: 41st Avenue - Main Street, 1922

    Queens: 41st Avenue - Main Street

    1922

  • Queens: 41st Avenue - Main Street, 1922

    Queens: 41st Avenue - Main Street

    1922

  • Queens: 41st Avenue - Main Street, 1922

    Queens: 41st Avenue - Main Street

    1922

  • Queens: Main Street - 41st Avenue, 1922–1924

    Queens: Main Street - 41st Avenue

    1922; 1924

  • Queens: Main Street - 41st Avenue, 1925

    Queens: Main Street - 41st Avenue

    1925

  • Queens: Main Street - 41st Avenue, 1925

    Queens: Main Street - 41st Avenue

    1925

  • Queens: 41st Avenue - Main Street, 1927

    Queens: 41st Avenue - Main Street

    1927

  • Queens: Main Street - 41st Avenue

    Queens: Main Street - 41st Avenue

    Unknown

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  • 39th Avenue & Prince Street, Queens (3 photos)

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Queens: Main Street - 41st Avenue, 1922–1924

Photo 7 of 11 at Main Street & 41st Avenue, Queens

Queens: Main Street - 41st Avenue

1922; 1924

Main Street, west side, between Forty-first Ave. and Forty-first Road, showing a gas station on lot 57 which was once the station and depot of Oliver Charlicks' Railroad, (popularly called "The White Line," ) because of the white cars that were used) This is a set of two views. This building is not in existence in 1926. 1922. View 2: March 1924. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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