\[Elm Street and Bleeker Street - IRT East Side Line, Manhattan, NY] Elm (Lafayette) Street and Bleecker Street, Manhattan, NY. Survey photograph showing the excavation of the street during Contract 1, Section 2 construction of the IRT East Side line. Northward view of exposed gas, water and mail pipes, with scaffolding, rubble, straw and dirt. Children are playing in the excavated pit.