[roadway of East Houston Street: IND Sixth Avenue Line]
Survey negative documenting the roadway underneath the elevated tracks on East Houston Street as part of the construction and maintenance of the IND Sixth Avenue Subway Line. Shows cobblestone street, sidewalk, pedestrians, signage, trolley tracks, and automobiles.
New York Transit MuseumEast Houston Street, west from First Avenue; June 23, 1929.
The nearest building at left, on the south side of East Houston, is No. 161. Its neighbor to the east, No. 163-165, had recently been razed as part of the project to widen Allen Street in order to accommodate increased vehicular traffic. The widening project claimed dozens of tenement buildings, mostly on the east side of Allen Street. In the foreground is a pillar of the Second Avenue El trestle.
At right, signs tout "AUCTION PRICES" for a "building coming down sale." The building, No. 1-3 First Avenue, was razed for another set of civic projects: the widening of Houston, and the Construction of the Houston—Essex segment of the new IND Sixth Avenue subway.
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