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Metropolitan Avenue & 71st Avenue, Queens

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

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  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue, 1922

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue

    1922

  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue, 1922–1923

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue

    1922; 1923

  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue, 1922–1923

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue

    1922; 1923

  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue, 1922

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue

    1922

  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue, 1922

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue

    1922

  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue, 1922–1923

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue

    1922; 1923

  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue, 1922

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue

    1922

  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue, 1922–1923

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue

    1922; 1923

  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue, 1923

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue

    1923

  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue, 1923

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue

    1923

  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue, 1923

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue

    1923

  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue, 1923

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue

    1923

  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue, 1923

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue

    1923

  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue, 1923

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue

    1923

  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue, 1923

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue

    1923

  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue, 1923

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue

    1923

  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue, 1923

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue

    1923

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Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue, 1923

Photo 15 of 17 at Metropolitan Avenue & 71st Avenue, Queens

Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 71st Avenue

1923

Metropolitan Avenue, at the N.E. corner of Seventy-first Avenue (at far side of house; to be constructed) showing in 4 views the A. Hegerman farmhouse; also known as the Debevoise house. See other views. October 1923 Views 1, 2 3 and 4 Eugene L. Armbruster Collection

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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