IRT Third Avenue Line
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The IRT Third Avenue Line, commonly known as the Third Avenue Elevated, Third Avenue El, or Bronx El, was an elevated railway in Manhattan and the Bronx, New York City. Originally operated by the New
Third Avenue elevated trains at 59th Street
The Third Avenue El over the Bowery in the 1890s.
Under the El, from Division Street, 1936, Berenice Abbott
84th Street station of the Third Avenue El in September 1942
Bowery
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The Bowery is a street and neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City, New York. The street runs from Chatham Square at Park Row, Worth Street, and Mott Street in the south to Cooper Square at 4
IRT Third Avenue Line
…Transit Commission granted the New York Elevated Railway Company the right to construct the railway from Battery Park to the Harlem River along the Bowery and Third Avenue. At that time the company already operated the Ninth Avenue Elevated, which it acquired in 1871 after the bankruptcy of the West Side…
Looking north from Houston Street
The Bowery Lodge, one of the last remaining flophouses on the Bowery, and a contributing property to the district
Bowery circa 1900s, showing the tracks of the Third Avenue Elevated
The Bull's Head Tavern in the Bowery, 1801 – c. 1860