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Lafayette Street at Jones Alley
Lafayette Street at Jones Alley
[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.
IMAGE DATE1901
From
New York Transit Museum
New York Transit MuseumExcavation on the newly-extended Lafayette Street, at Jones Alley, April 1, 1901.
Ink annotation marks Bond Street, crossing in the foreground.
By
Urban Archive
Urban Archive