In the 1920s the City of New York put forth a plan for municipal subway relief and expansion, under the plan the first to be constructed was the Eighth Avenue Line (today’s A train) which would terminate at 207th Street in the Inwood neighborhood. This photograph looking towards Dyckman Street shows the Art Moderne styled Broadyke Apartments (on the left) which opened in 1928. On the building application for the certificate of occupancy in 1927, it was stated that a subway connection would be located on the cellar level.