Tunnel Entrance Under Construction in Long Island City: Flushing Line (IRT)
Photograph documenting construction of the Flushing Line in Long Island City. View of construction site shows laborers at entrance of tunnel, the tracks of the nearby Long Island Railroad, reinforced concrete construction of track walls, and a building under construction on a hill above. Original photographic logbook notation reads: At Station 8 and 25, 18 feet south of center line, looking west showing portal and progress in approach. Time, 10:40 A.M.
New York Transit MuseumTunnel Under Construction in Long Island City,1916.
The Hunter’s Point station opened in February of 1916, and in this photograph workers are building the tracks that lead out of the Steinway Tunnel to the next station, Court Square. The building under construction to the left was known for a time as the Queens Subway Building, where the County Seat was located, as well as the Degnon Contracting Company, who controlled the freight terminal nearby. The building was later taken over by Paragon Oil, and is currently a storage facility.
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