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Vacant Lot in Rockaway Beach

Collection: This image is from the Public Service Commission Photographs Collection and is depicted in a print and digital image.; Image is part of the Public Service Commission Photographs Collection
Date: May 3, 1938; 1938-05-03 Material: gelatin silver print Dimension: 8 x 10 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)
Creator: Public Service Commission Identifier: aql:4229 psc-000420 psc-000420.tif

Description: View northwest across Block 614 from the boardwalk at Beach 78th Street (now de-mapped here) from the ocean front boardwalk. Men with shovels work in the sand piled at right. The large building in the center, on Lot 20, is the Hotel Waldorf-By-The-Sea.

Collection : aql:3877; vital:1

Creator : Public Service Commission

Date : May 3, 1938; 1938-05-03

Summary/Description : View northwest across Block 614 from the boardwalk at Beach 78th Street (now de-mapped here) from the ocean front boardwalk. Men with shovels work in the sand piled at right. The large building in the center, on Lot 20, is the Hotel Waldorf-By-The-Sea.

Subject : Vacant lands; Hotels; Lodging-houses

Rights : Copyrighted: The City of New York

Coverage : Beach 79th Street at boardwalk, Rockaway Beach, NY Rockaway Beach (New York, N.Y.)

Type : black and white print; digital image

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

Identifier : aql:4229 psc-000420 psc-000420.tif

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Subject:
Vacant lands; Hotels; Lodging-houses
Rights Notice
Copyrighted: The City of New York


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