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Willets Point Boulevard & Union Street, Queens

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  • Queens: Willets Point Boulev - Union Street, 1927

    Queens: Willets Point Boulev - Union Street

    1927

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Queens: Willets Point Boulev - Union Street, 1927

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Queens: Willets Point Boulev - Union Street

1927

Willets Point Boulevard, north from Union Street toward Parsons Boulevard, showing some old houses (right) and rows of new ones (center). The part of Willets Point Boulevard shown here is the former Whitestone Avenue, main north-south thoroughfare from Flushing to Whitestone. April 13, 1927 P. L. Sperr

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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