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47th Street & 21st Avenue, Queens

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  • Queens: 47th Street - 21st Avenue, 1934

    Queens: 47th Street - 21st Avenue

    1934

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: 47th Street - 21st Avenue, 1934

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Queens: 47th Street - 21st Avenue

1934

47th Street, south from 21st Avenue, showing the farm land where the thoroughfare was later cut through. On the extreme right is the Steinway piano factory. P. L. Sperr May 27, 1934

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