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From: James Nevius <>
Subject: Re: [NYC] MUNY ARCH TAX PHOTOS
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 18:21:01 -0500
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The number on Jamaica Avenue, like on many street in Queens, can be confusing.

Usually a Jamaica avenue address is 5 digits, such as 174-25 Jamaica
Avenue. The first section is the name of the Street that intersects
it, the second section is the house number. Thus "174-25" is house 25
near 174th Street. (The science to it is more exact than that, but you
get the general idea.)

To confuse things further, west of 74th Street, the names of the
intersecting streets have names not numbers, and the numbering system
on Jamaica Avenue becomes conventional.

This is how the system works today; I cannot tell you how things would
have been numbered in your ancestor's time or how to decipher the
address from the 1920 census. This is, however, the reason you keep
getting an "out of range" message.

Best wishes,
James Nevius
http://www.walknyc.com


On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:48:02 -0500, Trisha Fitz Randolph
<> wrote:
> I tried to find my ancestors place of business and home but it keeps telling
> me I have the wrong numbers/out of range, they lived in Queens at 5076
> Jamaica Ave, in the 1920 census it reads 5076-22-39, how do I find this now
> ?
>
> Trisha Fitz Randolph
>
> Founder/CEO
> FitzRandolph Historical Society of New Jersey
> www.rootsweb.com/~njfrghs
> FitzRandolph Research Site
> www.myfamily.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Irene Salazar" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 9:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [NYC] MUNY ARCH TAX PHOTOS
>
> > Many thanks to all who sent me links and advice! I can hardly wait to
> > look.
> >
> > Irene
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Lois O'Malley" <>
> > To: "Irene Salazar" <>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 3:43 PM
> > Subject: Re: [NYC] MUNY ARCH TAX PHOTOS
> >
> >
> >> Irene.......here's all the info:
> >>
> >> http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/html/taxphotos/home.shtml
> >>
> >> These photos are wonderful.......I got 2 and was "really" pleased!!
> >>
> >> Regards, Lois in Central PA
> >> "Life can only be understood backwards,
> >> but it must be lived forwards."
> >> - Kierkegaard -
> >> searching for: Abeling, McKee - NYC & Brooklyn
> >> Hartmann, Katze, Hegeman - Brooklyn
> >>
> >>
> >>> Where does one go in NYC for these photos? I will be in NYC only a few
> >>> days and would like to get some of the pix of where we lived, especially
> >>> old Lower East Side buildings before my time.
> >>>
> >>> Irene in MD
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: <>
> >>> To: <>
> >>> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 10:52 PM
> >>> Subject: [NYC] MUNY ARCH TAX PHOTOS
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Hey N-Y-C,
> >>>>
> >>>> Just wanted to tell folks how please I am with the tax photograph that
> >>>> I
> >>>> ordered from the Muny Archives, for 25 Orchard Street. It was the
> >>>> first
> >>>> residence of my earliest Irish ancestor in 1863, and it came out VERY
> >>>> well.
> >>>>
> >>>> Barb
> >>>>
> >>>>
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James Nevius
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