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Queens Boulevard & 70th Road

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  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 70th Road, 1924

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 70th Road

    1924

  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 70th Road, 1939

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 70th Road

    1939

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Queens: Queens Boulevard - 70th Road, 1924

Photo 1 of 2 at Queens Boulevard & 70th Road

Queens: Queens Boulevard - 70th Road

1924

Queens Boulevard (trolley lines thereon), west from 70th Road (extreme left), showing in the background a remodeled house occupied at one time by Chas. Reitenback, a blacksmith; Van Wicklen was the owner in 1891. August 1924. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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