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Roosevelt Avenue & Woodside Avenue, Queens

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  • General view - Queens - Roosevelt Avenue - Woodside Avenue., 1923

    General view - Queens - Roosevelt Avenue - Woodside Avenue.

    1923

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General view - Queens - Roosevelt Avenue - Woodside Avenue., 1923

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General view - Queens - Roosevelt Avenue - Woodside Avenue.

1923

A general view N.W. from Roosevelt Ave., at its intersection with Woodside Ave., showing a section of Newtown known as Woodside, as seen from the elevated structure of the I.R.T. and B.M.T. subway lines; same running on Roosevelt Ave. at this point. About 1923. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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