Elevated Structure at 2 Ely Avenue: Flushing Line (IRT)
Photograph of elevated structure of the Flushing Line at Ely Avenue. Camera view is looking south showing columns, street, sidewalk, billboard advertisements, apartment houses and a truck. Original photographic logbook notatation reads: Camera 3 feet north of south curb of 11th Street and 6 feet west of west cub of Ely Avenue looking south showing front of lots at 4 and 6 Ely Avenue and front of house at number 2 Ely Avenue. Time 12:20.
New York Transit MuseumElevated structure of the Flushing Line at Ely Avenue, October 1, 1920.
Camera view is looking south showing columns, street, sidewalk, billboard advertisements, apartment houses and a truck. At right is No. 2 Ely Avenue (as 23rd Street was then known), roughly at the site of the present-day Court Square Diner.
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