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The IRT Ninth Avenue Line, often called the Ninth Avenue Elevated or Ninth Avenue El, was the first elevated railway in New York City. It opened in July 1868 as the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railwa
West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway test run, 1867
Berenice Abbott photograph of Ninth Avenue El station at 72nd Street in 1936
The Anderson–Jerome Avenues station was an elevated and partially underground station on the Bronx extension of the IRT Ninth Avenue Line in Highbridge, Bronx, New York City.
IRT Ninth Avenue Line
…145th Street for the first time. At the same time, the line was extended to 162nd Street in the Bronx, and stations were opened at Sedgwick Avenue and Anderson–Jerome Avenues. In December 1921, Lexington Avenue–Jerome Avenue subway trains began running north of 167th Street at all times, replacing elevated trains, which ran…
Platform of the Anderson–Jerome Avenues station
The station in February 2018