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An Old Hotel Cut in Half! 🔪
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The intersection of the Jamaica Plank Road (now Jamaica Avenue) and Eldert’s Lane was once the location of two popular roadhouses, They were busy spots owing to their proximity to the Union Course, a well-known racetrack, and their place on the major thoroughfare that passed through Queens and into the Village of Brooklyn. This is the story of Shaw's Hotel.
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2 Danforth Street
Brooklyn: Crescent Street - Danford Avenue (1) Crescent Street (elevator thereon), at the S.E. corner of Danford Ave., showing Shaw's hotel in a set of two views. This hotel was formerly on the S.E. Corner of Jamaica Ave. and Elderts Lane. In 1909 it was divided and moved to the sites seen in these views. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection. (2) The same, at the S.W. corner of Hemlock and Danford Ave. June 1922. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.
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