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Fulton Street and Flatbush Avenue
Fulton Street and Flatbush Avenue
Fulton Street and Flatbush Avenue

[Flatbush Avenue and Fulton Street: IRT Brooklyn Line]

Survey photograph of subway construction at Flatbush Avenue and Fulton Street, Brooklyn on the IRT Brooklyn Line. Photograph shows wooden decking and timber A-frames supporting existing Fulton Street elevated train. The camera is on the elevated stairs crossover platform looking southeast onto the intersection of Flatbush Avenue and Fulton Street. Trolley #321S is in the photograph.

IMAGE DATE1907
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Subway construction beneath elevated trains on Fulton Street (left) and Flatbush Avenue (right), September 10, 1907.

This photo captures the past and present of Brooklyn public transit: the Fulton and Fifth Avenue elevated trains (the latter over Flatbush Avenue); streetcars running on both streets; and reinforcements in place to brace the elevated trestles for excavation associated with the IRT Eastern Parkway line, beneath Flatbush.

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