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Ransom Street & 88th Avenue, Queens

3 historical photos taken here between 1924 and 1927, oldest first.

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  • Queens: Ransom Street - 88th Avenue, 1924

    Queens: Ransom Street - 88th Avenue

    1924

  • Queens: Ransom Street - 88th Avenue, 1924

    Queens: Ransom Street - 88th Avenue

    1924

  • Queens: 88th Avenue - Ransom Street, 1927

    Queens: 88th Avenue - Ransom Street

    1927

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Queens: Ransom Street - 88th Avenue, 1924

Photo 2 of 3 at Ransom Street & 88th Avenue, Queens

Queens: Ransom Street - 88th Avenue

1924

Ransom Street (Shaler Street), at the S.E. corner of Eighty-eighth Ave. showing what Eugene L. Armbruster states doubtfully to be the A. Graf house in 1896 and the old Kissam House before that. There are 33.1 acres of ground belonging to the B.T. Kissam Estate, south of Eighty-eighth Ave. to Braddock Ave. (Rocky Hill Road in 1909.) On this property there were two dwellings, one east of Ransom Street (formerly Shaler Street) and about 720 feet north of Braddock Ave., and the other, demolished in 1928, was north of Braddock Ave. and 1200 feet east of Ransom Street. This is a set of two views taken from slightly different angles. August 1924. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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