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Queens: Steinway Street - Broadway
1923
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Queens: Steinway Street - Broadway

1923

Steinway St., (right) at the S.E. corner of Broadway (left), showing the Daufkirchs Astoria Casino. In 1891 it was also known as Schnetzen Park. A group of four story structures occupied the site of this park in 1928. April 1923. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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