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Ninth and Sixth Avenue Elevated Lines
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The Ninth and Sixth Avenue Elevated trains, constructed in the second half of the 19th century, were built as an answer to the city's growing congestion problem. By the 1940s the Els were outdated and inefficient in comparison to the newly constructed modern subways. Between 1939 and 1958 (largely though in 1939 and 1940) the massive steel structures were dismantled piece by piece.
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53rd Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 53rd Street. View looking west from east platform, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
53rd Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 53rd Street. View looking west from west end of platform, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
53rd Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 53rd Street. View looking east from east end of west platform, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
53rd Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 53rd Street. View looking east from end of east platform, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
53rd Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 53rd Street. View looking east from west end of south platform, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
53rd Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 53rd Street. View looking west from near west of north platform, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
53rd Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 53rd Street. Station seen from south, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
53rd Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Manhattan: 8th Avenue - 53rd Street (West) Eighth Avenue and W. 53rd Street, northward, showing the Sixth Avenue 'El' station at this point as photographed from the S. W. corner. 1938-9 Alexander Alland This photo is one of a series that appeared in the published volume "Portrait of N. Y.' by Felix Reisenberg and Alex. Alland, IRGV.
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