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Metropolitan Avenue & Fresh Pond Road, Queens

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

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  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - Fresh Pond Road, 1922

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - Fresh Pond Road

    1922

  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - Fresh Pond Road, 1922

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - Fresh Pond Road

    1922

  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - Fresh Pond Road, 1923

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - Fresh Pond Road

    1923

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - Fresh Pond Road, 1922

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Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - Fresh Pond Road

1922

Metropolitan Avenue, at the S.E. corner of Fresh Pond Road, showing at the corner the Bushwick Station of the Long Island Railroad. This area consisting of 7 3/4 acres was purchased by one Braujes on June 26, 1862 for 5,252 dollars. About 1 3/4 acres were sold to the Long Island Railroad for about the above amount and the remainder in 1909 to the Bushwick Junction Real Estate Co. for $50,000. 1922 Eugene L. Armbruster Collection

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