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Independent Subway System Station (155 Street and St. Nicholas Avenue). Phone booth, 1932. This photograph depicts the booths at 155th Street Station of the IND Eighth Avenue Line (now a local station on the C train). This station opened on September 10, 1932. Because of the tiled walls, callers had issues with echoing and reverberations from the noise outside the booth. In the IND stations opened in 1940 on the Sixth Avenue Line, similar phone booths were constructed but with sound absorbing material on the upper halves of the niche. Signage near these later booths announced, "New Sound Absorbing Booths- You Hear Clearly."
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155th Street Station
155 Street and St. Nicholas Avenue. Independent Subway System Station. Stairway
155th Street Station
155 Street and St. Nicholas Avenue. Independent Subway System Station. Phone booth
155th Street Station
155 Street and St. Nicholas Avenue. Independent Subway System Station. Station and ticket offices
155th Street Station
155 Street and St. Nicholas Avenue. Independent Subway System Station. Upper platform from turnstiles
155th Street Station
155 Street and St. Nicholas Avenue. Independent Subway System Station. Train platform
155th Street Station
Manhattan: 8th Avenue - 155th Street (West) Eighth Avenue, at West 155th Street, showing various aspects of this locale. View No. 1 is northward along the line of the Avenue showing the "El" trains thereupon. At the left is the baseball park, the Polo Grounds. View No. 2 is eastward showing the viaduct carrying 155th Street over this point. In the background is the Bronx shore of the Harlem River. Beyond the 155th Street Bridge appears the super structures of the Yankee Stadium and the new Borough Hall Building. No. 3 is limited to the viaduct entrances to the "El" at the left and the Street at the right. The view is northward. Note High Bridge is the distance. June 5, 1940 No's. 1-2-3 P. L. Speer
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