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Beach 20th Street & Plainview Avenue, Queens

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  • Queens: Beach 20th Street - Plainview Avenue, 1923

    Queens: Beach 20th Street - Plainview Avenue

    1923

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Queens: Beach 20th Street - Plainview Avenue, 1923

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Queens: Beach 20th Street - Plainview Avenue

1923

Beach 20th Street, at the N.W. corner of Plainview Ave., showing Gerston's Wavecrest Hotel. Eugene L. Armbruster states it was Mrs. Carroll's house in 1873. January 1923. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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