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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 By the 1940s the Els were outdated and inefficient in comparison to the newly constructed modern subways.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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Grand Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at West Broadway, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Grand Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Grand Street. View looking north from north end of northbound platform, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Grand Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Grand Street. View looking south from south end of southbound platform, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Grand Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at West Broadway. View looking north from Canal Street and Grand Street, February 7, 1939.
Grand Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at West Broadway. View looking north from Grand Street and Broome Street, February 7, 1939
Grand Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at West Broadway. Grand Street station, February 7, 1939.
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