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18th Street and Park Avenue South (Fourth Avenue)
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18th Street and Park Avenue South (Fourth Avenue)
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View north from 7th Street and Fourth Avenue (today Park Avenue South), August 2, 1902. During the cut and cover process of construction of the IRT East Side line, the busy streets of the city needed to maintain their necessary uses. Here a fully loaded trolley rolls over the tracks of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company. The tracks have been raised above the large excavation pit and shored up with thick timbers.
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18th Street and Park Avenue South (Fourth Avenue)
\[17th Street and 4th Avenue, IRT East Side Line, Manhattan, NY] 17th Street and 4th Avenue (now Park Avenue South), Manhattan, NY. Survey photograph showing excavation of the street during Contract 1, Section 3 construction of the IRT East Side Line. View of three trolleys running on tracks above the subway construction, including trolley car #2223 on the Metropolitan Street Railway Company Madison Avenue-4th Avenue line. Some of the trolley tracks appear to have been removed or rerouted. Also showing horse-drawn carts, a hair-dressing parlor, and pedestrians.
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