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82nd Place & Penelope Avenue, Queens

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  • Queens: 82nd Place - Penelope Avenue, 1935

    Queens: 82nd Place - Penelope Avenue

    1935

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: 82nd Place - Penelope Avenue, 1935

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Queens: 82nd Place - Penelope Avenue

1935

82nd Place, west side, between Penelope and 63rd Avenues, showing the West Forest Hills Community Church, erected in 1933. P. L. Sperr July 2, 1935

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