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[Busy sidewalk along 8th Avenue: IND Sixth Avenue Subway Line]

Survey negative documenting the street along 8th Avenue and 14th street as part of the construction and maintenance of the IND Sixth Avenue Subway Line. Shows sidewalk, street, buildings, storefronts, signage, trolley, and pedestrians, stationed at 4+25.

IMAGE DATE1926
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Pedestrians crossing West 15th Street on the west side of Eighth Avenue; April 18, 1926.

Every building on the blockfront behind them, between West 15th and 16th Streets, would be razed in the following years, making way for the city's largest building. The mammoth Port Authority Building (now Google's New York headquarters) was completed in 1932.

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