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Pitkin Avenue & 88th Street, Queens

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  • Queens: Pitkin Avenue - 88th Street, 1895

    Queens: Pitkin Avenue - 88th Street

    1895

  • Queens: Pitkin Avenue - 88th Street, 1922

    Queens: Pitkin Avenue - 88th Street

    1922

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Queens: Pitkin Avenue - 88th Street, 1895

Photo 1 of 2 at Pitkin Avenue & 88th Street, Queens

Queens: Pitkin Avenue - 88th Street

1895

Pitkin Avenue, south side, at about 88th Street, showing the Isaac Doxsey House. Phil Uhl was the last owner who sold it to M. Silverman, a land developer. Pitkin Avenue, here, is the old South Road. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection ------1895

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