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Bethune Street and Greenwich Street
Elevated railroad tracks over Greenwich Street, Manhattan, 1876. View looking north from Bank Street.
Bethune Street and Greenwich Street
\[Greenwich Street and Bank Street, Manhattan, NY] Greenwich Street and Bank Street, Manhattan, NY. Northward view of the the Greenwich Street Elevated Railroad (originally opened in 1868 as a cable-operated train, closed and re-opened in 1871 with steam engines, and eventually merged with the Ninth Avenue elevated line). View of residential buildings on either side of the tracks, with carts below the tracks on the street, and a factory or plant chimney in the distance. Caption reads, "Number 3. From Bank Street Looking North from an elevation."
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