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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 By the 1940s the Els were outdated and inefficient in comparison to the newly constructed modern subways.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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28th Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 28th Street. View looking south from southbound platform, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
28th Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 28th Street. View looking north from west end of northbound platform, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
28th Street Station, Sixth Avenue El
"El," Sixth Avenue Line, 28th Street Station; Changing New York West 28th Street.
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