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English: Plate 34 of the 1909 Bromley Atlas of the City of New York Borough of Queens, showing the general Downtown Jamaica area. Highlighted is the Jamaica State Normal School, a training school for teachers located at Parsons Boulevard and Highland Avenue near Hillside Avenue in Jamaica Hills / Briarwood. This is now the site of Hillcrest High School and Public School 86, which were built on the site in the 1970s.
  • Adjacent to the north of the site was the Flushing–Jamaica Streetcar Line, which ran on a private right-of-way adjacent to the school.


Original description: Plate 34: Bounded by Bischoff Pl., Lott Lane, Flushing Avenue, Lathrop Avenue, Park Avenue, Highland Avenue, Grand Avenue, Hillside Avenue, (Jamaica Estates) Madison Avenue, (Long Island R.R.) Fulton Street, Vanderbilt Avenue, Archer Street, Vanwyck Avenue, Newtown Creek Road, Vanderbilt Avenue, Hancock Street, (Maple Grove Cemetery) Hoffman Blvd., Hutton Avenue and Knoll Avenue.]; Atlases of New York city. / Atlas of the city of New York, borough of Queens, Long Island City, Newtown, Flushing, Jamaica, Far Rockaway, from actual surveys and official plans / by George W. and Walter S. Bromley.
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Map Div.+++ (Queens, New York) (Bromley, G.W., and Co. Atlas of the City of New York, Borough of Queens. 1909)
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Plate 34
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Part of the Borough of Queens, Jamaica, Ward 4.
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Author G.W. Bromley and Co. (Map publisher)
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(Reusing this file)		 From The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division. http://maps.nypl.org
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96] p. : 48 col. maps ; 57 cm.
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Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
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8-22-2006; updated 6-23-2011
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1516380
Camera location40° 42′ 33.12″ N, 73° 48′ 10.93″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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