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Cortlandt Street Station, Ninth Avenue El
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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 By the 1940s the Els were outdated and inefficient in comparison to the newly constructed modern subways.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.
Ninth Avenue Elevated Line
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This series is the complete line of the Ninth Avenue El as it existed between the 1870s and 1940.
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Cortlandt Street Station, Ninth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Church Street. View looking northwest across Church and Cutter \[?], undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Cortlandt Street Station, Ninth Avenue El
Sixth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street. View looking west into Cortlandt Street, undated \[c. 1937-1941].
Cortlandt Street Station, Ninth Avenue El
Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street, November 25, 1940.
Cortlandt Street Station, Ninth Avenue El
Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street, November 25, 1940.
Cortlandt Street Station, Ninth Avenue El
Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street, June 3-5, 1940.
Cortlandt Street Station, Ninth Avenue El
Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street station, January 10, 1941. Sparks from cutting torches.
Cortlandt Street Station, Ninth Avenue El
Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street station, January 10, 1941. Sparks from cutting torches.
Cortlandt Street Station, Ninth Avenue El
Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street station, January 10, 1941. Demolition in progress.
Cortlandt Street Station, Ninth Avenue El
Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street, January 11, 1941.
Cortlandt Street Station, Ninth Avenue El
Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street station, January 10, 1941. Demolition in progress.
Cortlandt Street Station, Ninth Avenue El
Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street station, January 10, 1941. Demolition in progress.
Cortlandt Street Station, Ninth Avenue El
Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street station, January 10, 1941. Demolition in progress.
Cortlandt Street Station, Ninth Avenue El
Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street station, January 10, 1941. Sparks from cutting torches.
Cortlandt Street Station, Ninth Avenue El
Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street station, January 10, 1941. Demolition in progress.
Cortlandt Street Station, Ninth Avenue El
Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street station, January 10, 1941. Sparks from cutting torches.
Cortlandt Street Station, Ninth Avenue El
Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street station, January 10, 1941. Sparks from cutting torches.
Cortlandt Street Station, Ninth Avenue El
Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street station, January 10, 1941. Demolition in progress.
Cortlandt Street Station, Ninth Avenue El
Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, on Greenwich Street at Cortland Street Station, undated.
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