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Ninth and Sixth Avenue Elevated Lines image

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 By the 1940s the Els were outdated and inefficient in comparison to the newly constructed modern subways.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.
Ninth Avenue Elevated Line image

Ninth Avenue Elevated Line
Story

This series is the complete line of the Ninth Avenue El as it existed between the 1870s and 1940.

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130th Street Station, Ninth and Sixth Avenue El image

130th Street Station, Ninth and Sixth Avenue El

Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 130th Street, June 3-5, 1940.
130th Street Station, Ninth and Sixth Avenue El image

130th Street Station, Ninth and Sixth Avenue El

Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 130th Street station west, December 1, 1940.
130th Street Station, Ninth and Sixth Avenue El image

130th Street Station, Ninth and Sixth Avenue El

Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 130th Street station east, December 1, 1940.
130th Street Station, Ninth and Sixth Avenue El image

130th Street Station, Ninth and Sixth Avenue El

Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 130th Street, June 3-5, 1940.
130th Street Station, Ninth and Sixth Avenue El image

130th Street Station, Ninth and Sixth Avenue El

Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 130th Street station at Eighth Avenue, January 9, 1941.
130th Street Station, Ninth and Sixth Avenue El image

130th Street Station, Ninth and Sixth Avenue El

Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 130th Street, January 5, 1941. View looking north from between 129th and 130th Street.
130th Street Station, Ninth and Sixth Avenue El image

130th Street Station, Ninth and Sixth Avenue El

Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 129th Street north, January 5, 1941.
130th Street Station, Ninth and Sixth Avenue El image

130th Street Station, Ninth and Sixth Avenue El

Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 130th Street, January 9, 1941.
130th Street Station, Ninth and Sixth Avenue El image

130th Street Station, Ninth and Sixth Avenue El

Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 130th Street, January 5, 1941. View looking north from between 129th and 130th Street.
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