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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 By the 1940s the Els were outdated and inefficient in comparison to the newly constructed modern subways.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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Park Place Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Church Street and Park Place, cutting beams with a torch, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Park Place Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Church Street and Park Place. View of the remains of Park Place station, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Park Place Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Church Street and Park Place. Workman on girder, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Park Place Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Park Place. View of the station from near Park Place and Church Street, looking southwest, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Park Place Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Park Place. View of the station from the northeast, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Park Place Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Church Street and Park Place, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Park Place Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Church Street and Park Place. View looking northwest at demolition in progress, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Park Place Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Church Street and Park Place View looking Man View looking view up from southeast on sidewalk undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Park Place Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Church Street and Park Place, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Park Place Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Park Place. View looking north from middle of northbound platform, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Park Place Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Park Place. View looking south from southbound platform, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Park Place Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Church Street and Park Place, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Park Place Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Park Place. View of the station from the northeast corner, January 25 or 31, 1939.
Park Place Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Park Place. View of the station from the northeast, March 1 or 2, 1939.
Park Place Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Park Place, March 1 or 3, 1939.
Park Place Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Park Place. View looking east from west of Church Street at demolition, March 2, 1939.
Park Place Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Park Place, January 25 or 31, 1939.
Park Place Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Park Place. View looking west from south of Church, January 25 or 31, 1939.
Park Place Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Park Place. View looking north from Broadway and Park Place, January 25 or 31, 1939.
Park Place Station, Sixth Avenue El
Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Park Place north, January 22, 1941.
Park Place Station, Sixth Avenue El
\[Park Place Station: IRT Broadway- 7th Avenue Line] Photographic record of Park Place Station on the IRT Broadway- 7th Avenue Line. Camera located on the East Mezzanine, facing northeast, with a view of the change agents booth and ceiling.
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