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Queens Boulevard & 54th Avenue

8 historical photos taken here between 1922 and 1929, oldest first.

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  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 54th Avenue, 1922–1923

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 54th Avenue

    1922; 1923

  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 54th Avenue, 1922–1923

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 54th Avenue

    1922; 1923

  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 54th Avenue, 1922–1923

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 54th Avenue

    1922; 1923

  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 54th Avenue, 1923–1929

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 54th Avenue

    1923; 1924; 1929

  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 54th Avenue, 1923–1929

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 54th Avenue

    1923; 1924; 1929

  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 54th Avenue, 1923–1929

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 54th Avenue

    1923; 1924; 1929

  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 54th Avenue, 1923–1929

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 54th Avenue

    1923; 1924; 1929

  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 54th Avenue, 1927

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 54th Avenue

    1927

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Queens: Queens Boulevard - 54th Avenue, 1922–1923

Photo 1 of 8 at Queens Boulevard & 54th Avenue

Queens: Queens Boulevard - 54th Avenue

1922; 1923

Queens Boulevard, south side, between Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Avenues, showing in three views the First Presbyterian Church of Newtown. Views one and two show the front and rear of the new edifice. John Goldsmith Payntor who died in 1891 left the parish sufficient money for the erection of the stone structure. The cornerstone was laid July 6, 1893 and the edifice was dedicated May 5, 1895. View No. 3 is taken from a point south of Justice Avenue, between Fifty-fifth and Fifty-second Avenues, viewing south and shows in the foreground the old Church and cemetery on the north side of the Boulevard between Fifty-fifth Avenue and Broadway. Views 2&3: May 1923 Eugene L. Armbruster Collection

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