[Kenmare Street between Mulberry and Mott Streets: BRT Centre Street Loop]
Survey photograph of Kenmare Street between Mulberry and Mott Streets, Manhattan on the BRT Centre Street Loop. The image shows timbering in place alongside building foundations, subway excavation, and pedestrian onlookers standing on the wooden sidewalk platform. The camera is looking east from a point on Delancey Street showing a portion of the completed buildings on the northeast and southeast corners of Mott Street.
New York Transit MuseumConstruction on the BRT Centre Street Loop, with timbering supporting buildings along Kenmare Street, June 5, 1908.
The wooden foot bridge at center is at Mulberry Street. Completed buildings in the background are on the eastern corners of Mott Street.
The Centre Street Loop, approved in 1907 but never completed as planned, was designed to connect service from the Williamsburg and Brooklyn bridges, via Chambers Street. Today, some tracks are used by the BMT Nassau Street Line (J/Z trains).
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