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Metropolitan Avenue & 70th Avenue, Queens

7 historical photos taken here between 1922 and 1923, oldest first.

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  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 70th Avenue, 1922–1923

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 70th Avenue

    1922; 1923

  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 70th Avenue, 1922–1923

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 70th Avenue

    1922; 1923

  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 70th Avenue, 1922–1923

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 70th Avenue

    1922; 1923

  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 70th Avenue, 1922–1923

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 70th Avenue

    1922; 1923

  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 70th Avenue, 1922–1923

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 70th Avenue

    1922; 1923

  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 70th Avenue, 1922–1923

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 70th Avenue

    1922; 1923

  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 70th Avenue, 1922–1923

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 70th Avenue

    1922; 1923

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Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 70th Avenue, 1922–1923

Photo 7 of 7 at Metropolitan Avenue & 70th Avenue, Queens

Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 70th Avenue

1922; 1923

Metropolitan Avenue, north side, west from Seventieth Avenue (formerly Herrick Avenue), showing in four views in the foreground the house and outbuildings of J. Vanderveer. In view No. 1 in the background is seen the home of Col. Hunt. Views 2, 3, and 4 shows the store barn of the Vanderveer family which was erected in 1850. In the 1929 Queens Atlas the buildings seen in these views no longer appear. For more data concerning the Vanderveer house see views located as the north side of Metropolitan Avenue opposite Seventieth Avenue. View 2: Views 3&4: October 1923 April 1923 1922 Eugene L. Armbruster Collection

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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