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38th Avenue & 34th Street, Queens

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  • Queens: 38th Avenue - 34th Street, 1940

    Queens: 38th Avenue - 34th Street

    1940

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: 38th Avenue - 34th Street, 1940

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Queens: 38th Avenue - 34th Street

1940

38th Avenue, north side, from 34th to 35th Streets, showing the Brewster Aeronautical Corporation's plant. The view is across a triangular plot from Northern Boulevard. September 5, 1940

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