Joralemon Street Tunnel
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The Joralemon Street Tunnel, originally the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel, is a pair of tubes carrying the IRT Lexington Avenue Line of the New York City Subway under the East River between Bowling Green Park in Manhattan and Brooklyn Heights in Brooklyn, New York City. The Joralemon Street Tunnel was an extension of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT)'s first subway line from the Bowling Green station in Manhattan to the IRT Eastern Parkway Line in Brooklyn.
1913 postcard illustrating the tunnel and City Hall station
South Ferry ventilation shaft
This house at 58 Joralemon Street was purchased and converted into a ventilation shaft for the Joralemon Street Tunnel.
The beginning of the tunnel just south of the Bowling Green station
IRT Lexington Avenue Line
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The IRT Lexington Avenue Line is one of the lines of the A Division of the New York City Subway, stretching from Lower Manhattan north to 125th Street in East Harlem. The line is served by the 4, 5, 6, and <6> trains.
First earth from Lexington Avenue subway line in 1913
Brochure for the opening of the 59th Street express platforms