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Mazel Tov!  East Broadway Finally Gets A Subway Stop. Exit There For The Forward image

Mazel Tov! East Broadway Finally Gets A Subway Stop. Exit There For The Forward
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On January 1, 1936, New York’s Lower East Side got its first subway stop, changing it from a land of crowded tenement dwellings and slums to a gentrified city district practically overnight. This is the story of the East Side Subway, איסט-סײַד אונטערבאַן. In Yiddish, the subway is called the unterban, though colloquially it was called the subvey which is how The Forward spelled it out for readers.

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16 Horatio Street image

16 Horatio Street

Manhattan: Horatio Street - 8th Avenue 16, 14, 10-8 Horatio Street, south side, east of and from Eighth Avenue. No. 10-8 is the Chapel of the Comforter (Protestant Episcopal). May 27, 1931. P. L. Sperr.
18 Horatio Street image

18 Horatio Street

Manhattan: 8th Avenue - 14th Street (West) (1) Eighth Ave., south from West 14th to Hudson Streets and showing on the left,the western side of a small triangular park; Jackson Square. The buildings seen across same are Nos. 18 to 14 Horatio Street. April 17, 1937. P. L. Sperr. (2) A complete view of the block shown on therdght of No. 1. These structures are Nos. 65 to 79; the latter being the New York County National Bank at the S.W. corner of West 14th Street. In the foreground of this photo appears the only entrance to the park which is on Greenwich Ave. April 17, 1937. P. L. Sperr. (3) A view slightly southward of No. 1; this being from West 13th Street (left). Photographers vantage point is on Eighth Ave. at Greenwich Ave. April 17, 1937.
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