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Temporary staircases for buildings along Fourth Avenue, June 5, 1906. Stations between City Hall and and 33rd Street on the IRT Lexington Avenue line opened in October, 1904. In this photo 1906 photo, it’s unclear what work is being done, though the placement of the wooden stairways suggests sidewalk work.

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75 Fourth Avenue image

75 Fourth Avenue

View along Fourth Avenue between 10th Street and 11th Street, New York City; copy negative after a lithograph by George Hayward published in Valentine's Manual, 1861.
85 Fourth Avenue image

85 Fourth Avenue

\[4th Avenue and 11th Street, IRT East Side Line, Manhattan, NY] 4th Avenue and 11th Street, Manhattan, NY. Survey photograph of the street during Contract 1 construction of the IRT East Side line. Northward view of the East sidewalk, showing boys and male pedestrians, carts with wooden wheels, and multiple stores.
83 Fourth Avenue image

83 Fourth Avenue

\[4th Avenue and 11th Street, IRT East Side Line, Manhattan, NY] 4th Avenue and 11th Street, Manhattan, NY. Survey photograph of the street during Contract 1 construction of the IRT East Side line. Northward view of wooden stairways leading from the temporary wooden sidewalks down to the storefronts on 4th Avenue. Businesses include a tailor shop, a bakery, a lunch room advertising "Lion Brewery Pilsener Beer" and a toiletry shop advertising the "Mexican Amole Soap Company."
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91 Fourth Avenue

\[4th Avenue and 11th Street, IRT East Side Line, Manhattan, NY] 4th Avenue and 11th Street, Manhattan, NY. Survey photograph of the street during Contract 1 construction of the IRT East Side line. Southward view of wooden stairways leading from the temporary wooden sidewalks down to the storefronts on 4th Avenue. Multiple lunch rooms, including one advertising "Lion Brewery Pilsener Beer" and "Telephone Pay Station."
85 Fourth Avenue image

85 Fourth Avenue

\[4th Avenue and 11th Street, IRT East Side Line, Manhattan, NY] 4th Avenue and 11th Street, Manhattan, NY. Survey photograph of the street during Contract 1 construction of the IRT East Side line. Southward view of the completed ventilation grate built into the sidewalk. Also showing stores, pedestrians, horse-drawn carts and wheelbarrows.
75 Fourth Avenue image

75 Fourth Avenue

Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 10th Street East side of Fourth Avenue at 10th Street, and north. November 19, 1930. P.L.Spesh, Photogragher.
75 Fourth Avenue image

75 Fourth Avenue

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79 Fourth Avenue

Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 10th Street Bookstalls, etc., 79 Fourth Avenue, east side, between 10th and 11th Streets and north. From 8th to 14th Streets,Fourth Avenue abounds in second-hand book stores, where bargain hunters search for rare books. June 12, 1933. P.L. Sperr, Photographer.
83 Fourth Avenue image

83 Fourth Avenue

\[83 Elm (now Lafayette) Street: IRT East Side Line] Close up of timber shoring up buliding facades along Elm (now Lafayette) Street, 1906. IRT Contract 1 line.
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