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Trotting Course Lane & West 6th Street, Queens

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  • Queens: Trotting Course Lane - 6th Street (West), 1923

    Queens: Trotting Course Lane - 6th Street (West)

    1923

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: Trotting Course Lane - 6th Street (West), 1923

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Queens: Trotting Course Lane - 6th Street (West)

1923

Trotting Course Lane, east side, opposite Polo Place (just north of Metropolitan Avenue), showing the Abraham Remsen House, built prior to 1712. During the Revolution the Remsen farm suffered many depredations. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection 1923

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