Dec 12, 2025
Jack M. Kaplan stands outside his Third Avenue antique store with a sign he dreamed up to celebrate the removal of the El (elevated train) this Christmas, December 12, 1955.
Photo: Bettmann Archives/Getty Images
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Jack M. Kaplan stands outside his Third Avenue antique store with a sign he dreamed up to celebrate the removal of the El (elevated train) this Christmas, December 12, 1955.
Photo: Bettmann Archives/Getty Images
Rare color photo of the Third Avenue El in 1955, the year it was demolished. Chromogenic print.
Photo: Elliott Erwitt via Christie's
Third Avenue and the El, looking downtown, 1950.
Photo: Bettmann/Getty via galerieprints
Third Avenue restaurant, 1954.
Photo: Elliott Erwitt via the Robert Koch Gallery
Sitting on the pavement, a Third Avenue “clothes dealer” talks with a prospective customer, 1952. Click to enlarge.
Photo: Ernst Haas via ernst-haas.com
Nice angles on the windows. Cool delivery man. Enough said.