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Atlantic Avenue-Pacific Street Station ยท 128 Flatbush Avenue
Atlantic Avenue-Pacific Street Station

[Atlantic Avenue and Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY]

Overhead view of Atlantic Avenue and Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn, NY. Kiosk entrance to the Atlantic Avenue IRT subway station is prominently featured. Sign on kiosk reads "Interborough Subway, Direct Through Service to Manhattan and the Bronx" and lists the subway stops for the West Side Subway and the East Side Subway lines. The bottom of the sign boasts that the IRT is "the only subway operated above 59th Street." A small sign reading "East New York and Vanderveer Park" is appended above the large sign to show Brooklyn-bound service. Also in view is the Atlantic Avenue Station on the BMT Fifth Avenue Line. A third mode of transportation, trolley cars and trolley tracks, is sandwiched between the elevated railroad and the subway station kiosk enterance. A fourth mode of transportation, automobiles, is also in the picture. A folded sign advertising the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper and a bag of newspapers is in a corner of the perimeter of the subway kiosk. Large YMCA building in background.

IMAGE DATE1928
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