14 Photos Of Queens From Before You Were Born
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"Buy the parts you like the best!" Located at 136-17 to 19 Roosevelt Avenue. 1944.
Today it's looking different.<p>32nd Street and Hunters Point Avenue. Planters Peanut warehouse and garage, front elevation to garage on Hunters Point Avenue. 1954. (<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=32nd+Street+and+Hunters+Point+Avenue+queens&hl=en&ll=40.738754,-73.933021&spn=0.005064,0.012188&sll=40.739245,-73.933662&layer=c&cbp=13,36.01,,0,-0.84&cbll=40.739231,-73.933632&gl=us&hnear=Hunters+Point+Ave+%26+32nd+Pl,+Queens,+New+York+11101&t=h&z=17&panoid=7EKddY3rAIIbueSb2NTpgw>Here it is today</a>."></a></p>
<p>Kelvin Apartments, Forest Hills. Rear elevation from Queens Blvd. November 25, 1928. Check out the floorplans <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8095451@N08/5242301399/sizes/o/in/set-72157625427487043/">here</a>.</p><p></p><form class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" mt:asset-id="699769" style="display: inline;"> <img alt="kelvinap0312.jpg" class="image-none" height="461" src="http://gothamist.com/attachments/arts_jen/kelvinap0312.jpg" width="640"/> </form>
<p>Roosevelt Avenue. Looking S.E. at Main Street, 1951. </p>
<p>Flushing, Main Street and Northern Boulevard. 1922. </p>
<p>136-50 Roosevelt Avenue, near Main Street. Old Central Bus Terminal building,1942. </p>
<p>View from a passing train (probably the Elmhurst gas tanks in Queens, NY). 1950.</p>
<p>Jamaica Town Hall. June 1, 1937. </p>
<p>Steinway, 1902 </p>
<p>War Gardens at Jackson Heights. 1918. </p>
<p>Mayor of NYC's Ardolph Loges Kline's son-in-law's home in Jamaica, Queens. </p>
<p>Winter at Richmond Hill in street in front of our house. 1890. </p>
<p>Queensboro Bridge under construction, 1905.</p>
<p>"New York has a picturesque Venice all her own"</p>