IRT Sixth Avenue Line
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The IRT Sixth Avenue Line, often called the Sixth Avenue Elevated or Sixth Avenue El, was the second elevated railway in Manhattan in New York City, following the Ninth Avenue Elevated.
New York City's Sixth Avenue elevated railway and the crowded street below
The Sixth Avenue El in Greenwich Village, 1935 Berenice Abbott
View of the IRT Sixth Avenue Line from the corner of Waverly Place
Looking down from 33rd St station, 1936 by Berenice Abbott
IRT Ninth Avenue Line
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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
IRT Sixth Avenue Line
…Avenue Line, often called the Sixth Avenue Elevated or Sixth Avenue El, was the second elevated railway in Manhattan in New York City, following the Ninth Avenue Elevated. The line ran south of Central Park, mainly along Sixth Avenue. Farther north, trains continued on the Ninth Avenue Line…
West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway test run, 1867
Berenice Abbott photograph of Ninth Avenue El station at 72nd Street in 1936