Vacant Plots off King Street: IND 8th Avenue Line
Negative documents vacant plots from the north curb of King Street as part of the construction and maintenance of the IND 8th Avenue Line. Shows construction site, construction equipment, laborers, and apartment house buildings.
New York Transit MuseumIntersection of Sullivan and Grand Streets; March 8, 1927.
This photo was taken in preparation for the construction of the IND Eighth Avenue line and the extension of Sixth Avenue (the lot at right has already been cleared for the project). Two blocks east, the Grand Street station of the Sixth Avenue El is visible above West Broadway.
Today, the intersection of Grand Street, Sullivan Street, and Sixth Avenue is known as Duarte Square, after Juan Pablo Duarte, a founding father of the Dominican Republic (in keeping with Sixth Avenue's 1945 honorific renaming as the "Avenue of the Americas").
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