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Hurricane Damage on College Point Causeway

Collection: This image is from the Borough President of Queens Photographs and is depicted in a print and digital image.; Image is part of the Borough President of Queens Photographs
Date: September 23, 1938; 1938-09-23 Material: gelatin silver print Dimension: 8 x 10 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)
Creator: Borough President of Queens Identifier: aql:12862 bpq-000255 bpq-000255.tif

Description: View looking south along College Point Causeway, now College Point Boulevard. The washed out road and damaged trolley tracks were the result of the September 1938 hurricane. Flushing Bridge and the tower from the old W. J. Sloane Furniture Co. factory can be seen in the distance.

Collection : aql:5922

Creator : Borough President of Queens

Date : September 23, 1938; 1938-09-23

Summary/Description : View looking south along College Point Causeway, now College Point Boulevard. The washed out road and damaged trolley tracks were the result of the September 1938 hurricane. Flushing Bridge and the tower from the old W. J. Sloane Furniture Co. factory can be seen in the distance.

Subject : Roads; Hurricane damage

Rights : Copyright held by the City of New York

Coverage : College Point Boulevard, College Point, NY College Point (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : black and white print; digital images

Format : gelatin silver print; 8 x 10 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)

Identifier : aql:12862 bpq-000255 bpq-000255.tif

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Subject:
Roads; Hurricane damage
Rights Notice
Copyright held by the City of New York


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