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[Elevated tracks on Church Street: IND Fulton Line]

Survey negative documents street conditions underneath the elevated tracks on Church Street as part of the construction and maintenance of the IND Fulton Line. Shows street with trolley tracks, storefronts, elevated 6th Avenue Line, and buildings, stationed at 13+80.

IMAGE DATE1928
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Church Street, beneath the tracks of the Sixth Avenue El; April 1, 1928.

This survey photo was taken in preparation for construction on the IND Eighth Avenue Line subway, just south of the future Fulton Street station. At the next intersection south, entrance stairways to the Cortlandt Street elevated station are visible either side of Church Street.

At right is the entrance to No. 30 Church Street, the Hudson Terminal Cortlandt Building, one of two towers atop the Hudson & Manhattan railroad station.

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