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Queens Boulevard & Broadway

5 historical photos taken here between 1817 and 1923, oldest first.

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  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - Grand Avenue, 1817

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - Grand Avenue

    1817

  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - Broadway, 1923

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - Broadway

    1923

  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - Broadway, 1923

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - Broadway

    1923

  • Queens: Broadway - Queens Boulevard, 1923

    Queens: Broadway - Queens Boulevard

    1923

  • Queens: Grand Avenue - Queens Boulevard, 1923

    Queens: Grand Avenue - Queens Boulevard

    1923

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: Broadway - Queens Boulevard, 1923

Photo 4 of 5 at Queens Boulevard & Broadway

Queens: Broadway - Queens Boulevard

1923

Broadway (police thereon), north from Queens Boulevard, showing at the left on the N.W. corner the Heeg Hotel erected by John Heeg in 1891. This structure was partially demolished in October 1930. Portions of it, however, still remain. March 1923. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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