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Greenfield Avenue & Tompkins Avenue, Staten Island

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  • Richmond: Greenfield Avenue - Tompkins Avenue, 1931

    Richmond: Greenfield Avenue - Tompkins Avenue

    1931

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Richmond: Greenfield Avenue - Tompkins Avenue, 1931

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Richmond: Greenfield Avenue - Tompkins Avenue

1931

127 Greenfield Avenue, north side, east of Tompkins Avenue. Beers's and Robinson's maps of 1874 and 1898, respectively, show the house to have belonged to the Dustan family. It later (1907-1917 map) became the Greenfield residence. The view is westward. February 25, 1931. P. L. Sperr.

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