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Metropolitan Avenue & Woodhaven Boulevard, Queens

5 historical photos taken here in 1923, oldest first.

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  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - Woodhaven Boulevard, 1923

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - Woodhaven Boulevard

    1923

  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - Woodhaven Boulevard, 1923

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - Woodhaven Boulevard

    1923

  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - Woodhaven Boulevard, 1923

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - Woodhaven Boulevard

    1923

  • Queens: Woodhaven Blvd - Metropolitan Avenue, 1923

    Queens: Woodhaven Blvd - Metropolitan Avenue

    1923

  • Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - Woodhaven Boulevard, 1923

    Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - Woodhaven Boulevard

    1923

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: Woodhaven Blvd - Metropolitan Avenue, 1923

Photo 4 of 5 at Metropolitan Avenue & Woodhaven Boulevard, Queens

Queens: Woodhaven Blvd - Metropolitan Avenue

1923

Woodhaven Boulevard, at the southwest corner of Metropolitan Avenue, showing one of the Vanderveer houses, built in 1850. This house was built on a site farther east on Metropolitan Avenue, and was removed to this location 1880. Henry Suydam Vanderveer built the house. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection April, 1923

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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