#elevated subway

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Under the elevated tracks, Broadway at Lynch, Brooklyn, 1946.

Photo: Ed Clark for Life magazine via Time magazine

[coolthingsguyslike]

[2k115]

Midnight Crossing.#cityscape #nightphotography #urbanlights

[voca1ion]

September 21, 1935 issue of The New Yorker with a cover by Ilonka Karasz. Elevated subways used to be a fixture of all of New York, but were relegated to the outer boroughs in the 1930s and 1940s as the city demolished them and replaced most of them with new underground city owned lines.

[wanderingnewyork]

#New_York_City_Subways

From 2018: Looking along the tracks of the F and Q lines from the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue Station, #brooklyn

#mtanyctransit

#nytransitmuseum

#elevatedsubways

[paulpingminho]

[route22ny]

New York City 'Where the subway is an elevated' (circa 1905)

“This is a terrific view looking north up Broadway as it crossed Manhattan Street, the signature street of Manhattanville, a once-vibrant town that is now a less distinct section of West Harlem. Except for the magnificent Manhattan Street Station seen in the photo (note the name on the wall of the masonry structure below the tracks), whose name changed in 1921, 17 years after opening. The Belasco sign on the right is the NE corner of the cross streets. The apartment building under construction is still there, as are most of the surrounding 5- and 6-story apartment buildings that went up in 1905 and 1906 as part of the "Manhattanville Building Boom" (NY Herald) that was a direct result of the new rapid transit line. The buildings beyond the "Sinbad" sign to the extreme left were at the juncture of West 129th Street and Manhattan Street (now called St. Clair Place and West 125th Street, respectively). Unfortunately, Columbia University just demolished them (in 2010) in the course of expanding its campus into Manhattanville. This impressive subway structure was considered "worthy of Eiffel" when it opened in 1904. It, and the unseen Riverside Drive Viaduct, are centerpieces of the historic old New York neighborhood I discuss in my book Manhattanville: Old Heart of West Harlem” -- Eric K. Washington

Photo by Detroit Publishing Company via shorpy.com

[tchebotarev]

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