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45-30 23rd Street
45-30 23rd Street
2 Ely Avenue: Flushing Line (IRT)
Survey photograph taken at 12:25 PM looking north toward the staircase to the 45th Road- Court House Square Station. Camera is located on the corner of Ely Avenue (now 23rd Street) and Jackson Avenue showing the front of #2 Ely Avenue, which appears to be a Geo Ehret's Extra brewery or distributor.
IMAGE DATE1920
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New York Transit Museum
New York Transit Museum"Looking north toward the staircase to the 45th Road- Court House Square Station, 1920."
Taken only seven years after the previous photograph of the same corner, the streetscape has drastically changed. In November of 1916 the 45th Road–Court House Square station of the Corona Line (now Flushing Line or 7 Train) opened as two track, two platform elevated station.
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Urban Archive
Urban Archive