Montague St. cable tracks. 10/28/1914
View showing east face of arch spanning Montague Street. Camera located 50 ft. away in the center of the street, looking west. Photograph displays the corner of the cable car infrastructure along Montague Street, in a section with a brick arch spanning over it. Wrought iron fence is visible along the arch's edges. In the distance a cable car and the waterfront are visible. The street is of cobblestone.
New York Transit MuseumCable car infrastructure on Montague Street, beneath the underpass at Pierrepont Place, October 28, 1914.
This Brooklyn Heights view has long since disappeared, replaced by the Brooklyn—Queens Expressway's triple-cantilever. This photograph was taken some 2 weeks after construction commenced on the Montague Street Tunnel, which, upon its opening six years later would connect the BMT's Broadway (Manhattan) and Fourth Avenue Lines.
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