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 By the 1940s the Els were outdated and inefficient in comparison to the newly constructed modern subways.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