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Broadway & 51st Avenue, Queens

22 historical photos taken here between 1812 and 1941, oldest first.

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  • Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue, 1812

    Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue

    1812

  • Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue, 1922

    Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue

    1922

  • Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue, 1922

    Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue

    1922

  • Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue, 1922

    Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue

    1922

  • Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue, 1922

    Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue

    1922

  • Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue, 1922

    Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue

    1922

  • Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue, 1922

    Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue

    1922

  • Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue, 1922

    Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue

    1922

  • Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue, 1923-05

    Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue

    1923-05

  • Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue, 1923

    Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue

    1923

  • Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue, 1923-05

    Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue

    1923-05

  • Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue, 1924–1927

    Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue

    1924; 1927

  • Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue, 1924–1927

    Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue

    1924; 1927

  • Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue, 1924–1927

    Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue

    1924; 1927

  • Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue, 1925–1941

    Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue

    1925; 1935; 1941

  • Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue, 1925–1941

    Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue

    1925; 1935; 1941

  • Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue, 1925–1941

    Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue

    1925; 1935; 1941

  • Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue, 1927

    Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue

    1927

  • Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue, 1935

    Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue

    1935

  • Queens: 51st Avenue - Broadway, 1935

    Queens: 51st Avenue - Broadway

    1935

  • Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue

    Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue

    Unknown

  • Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue

    Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue

    Unknown

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Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue

Photo 22 of 22 at Broadway & 51st Avenue, Queens

Queens: Broadway - 51st Avenue

Unknown

Broadway, west side, between Queens Boulevard and Fifty-first Ave., showing in a set of two views the Wandowenock Fire House and the Registers office of Newtown. The buildings in this view were demolished in 1930 because of the extension through here of the Independent Subway lines. In View No.1, in which both buildings are seen distinctly; the building at the left is the fire house; the other which housed the office of the Newtown Register acquired its present outlines by adding to buildings already erected. A section of the first story was a school house erected about 1700 and was the first in the village. This building was enlarged in 1840. Then in 1873 another story was erected and the tower added by the Hon. Chas. White, founder of the Register. ---Arthur White.

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