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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 By the 1940s the Els were outdated and inefficient in comparison to the newly constructed modern subways.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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Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street. View looking south from bridge, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street. View looking north from Cortlandt Street, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street View looking north from Cortlandt undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Church Street. View looking at Cortlandt Street, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street. Dismantled station seen from above, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street. View looking east from the Greenwich Street and Church Street exit, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Church Street. View looking south from Cortlandt Street, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street. View looking north from bridge, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street. View looking north from the southbound platform, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Church Street. View looking west across Church Street, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Church Street, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Church Street. View looking toward Bartlett Street \[Barclay Street?], undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street. View looking south from the southbound platform, 1938.
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street. View looking north from south of Cortlandt Street, March 24, 1939.
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Church Street, March 17, 1939.
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street station, January 10, 1941. Sparks from cutting torches.
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt and Greenwich Streets, January 22, 1941. Pulling the last posts.
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt and Greenwich Streets, January 22, 1941. Pulling the last posts.
Cortlandt Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street station, January 10, 1941. Demolition in progress.
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