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Mott Avenue & Beach 19th Street, Queens

3 historical photos taken here in 1925, oldest first.

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  • Queens: Mott Avenue - Beach 19th Street, 1925

    Queens: Mott Avenue - Beach 19th Street

    1925

  • Queens: Mott Avenue - Beach 19th Street, 1925

    Queens: Mott Avenue - Beach 19th Street

    1925

  • Queens: Mott Avenue - Beach 19th Street, 1925

    Queens: Mott Avenue - Beach 19th Street

    1925

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Queens: Mott Avenue - Beach 19th Street, 1925

Photo 1 of 3 at Mott Avenue & Beach 19th Street, Queens

Queens: Mott Avenue - Beach 19th Street

1925

Mott Ave., north side, between Beach 20th (left) and Beach 19th Streets, showing partially in the foreground the Bank of the Rockaways building under construction. It subsequently became a branch of the Bank of the United States. This is a set of two views. In No. 2 is also showing a 2 1/2-story house in the rear of a group of buildings numbered 1918 to 1928, in 1918. This house was in existence in 1873 and on the site of former school No. 18, according to Eugene L. Armbruster, which is given questionably. April 1925. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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