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Queens Boulevard & 68th Avenue

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  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 68th Avenue, 1923–1928

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 68th Avenue

    1923; 1928

  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 68th Avenue, 1923–1928

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 68th Avenue

    1923; 1928

  • Queens: Queens Boulevard - 68th Avenue, 1923–1928

    Queens: Queens Boulevard - 68th Avenue

    1923; 1928

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Queens: Queens Boulevard - 68th Avenue, 1923–1928

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Queens: Queens Boulevard - 68th Avenue

1923; 1928

Queens Boulevard at the S.E. corner of Sixty-eighth Avenue (formerly Occident Street, showing in three views the George Herring residence, formerly known as 470 Queens Boulevard. The house seen in the views was owned and built by the above named individual in 1896. Views one and two show the house prior to the advance of modern New York City to this area. View No. three shows it afterwards. Some of the outbuildings seen in the views lie in Sixty-eighth Avenue (Occident Street). April 1923 View 2: February 1924 View 3: October 1928. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection

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