[17th Street and 4th Avenue, IRT East Side Line, Manhattan, NY]

17th Street and 4th Avenue (now Park Avenue South), Manhattan, NY. Survey photograph showing excavation of the street during Contract 1, Section 3 construction of the IRT East Side Line. View of three trolleys running on tracks above the subway construction, including trolley car #2223 on the Metropolitan Street Railway Company Madison Avenue-4th Avenue line. Some of the trolley tracks appear to have been removed or rerouted. Also showing horse-drawn carts, a hair-dressing parlor, and pedestrians.