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Forest Hills-71st Avenue Station, IND Queens Boulevard Line
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IMAGE DATE1930
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Excavation for the IND Queens Boulevard subway, March 17, 1930.

This view of mid-construction Queens Boulevard is eastward from near Harvest Street (now 70th Road) at the site of the future 71st-Continental Avenues station (now Forest Hills-71st Avenue). Forest Hills IND stations opened on New Year’s Eve 1936.

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