…Third Ave elevated train on 14th Street, via Wikimedia Sloan’s focus on the elevated train continued with this portrait of the same Sixth Avenue line at its next stop to…
Read More…transformative innovations in transportation technology. But while little known, the Village was in fact home to the first elevated rail line, and the first streetcar. The Ninth Avenue Elevated Railway,…
Read MoreGreenwich Village: Birthplace of the Elevated Railway A Lecture by Joe Cunningham Elevated rapid transit was introduced by Charles Harvey in 1868 with a short cable-operated line on Greenwich Street….
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Taken around West 11th Street, just west of West Street. Read more here about the West Side Highway after its collapse at Gansevoort Street and its closure in 1973. Included…
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Taken around West 11th Street, just west of West Street. Read more here about the West Side Highway after its collapse at Gansevoort Street and its closure in 1973. Included…
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Read more here about the West Side Highway after its collapse at Gansevoort Street and its closure in 1973….
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Looking back toward the 11th Street pier headhouse, around Bethune Street. Read more here about the West Side Highway after its collapse at Gansevoort Street and its closure in 1973….
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For more information on Superior Inks, click here and here. Read more here about the West Side Highway after its collapse at Gansevoort Street and its closure in 1973….
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11/10/2015 LPC hearing. For more information about this application, click here….
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For more information on the application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission associated with this image, click here….
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Given that there is an advertisement for the movie “Laura” in the background, it is likely this photo dates to 1944. There are also advertisements for the re-election of Assemblymember…
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Read More…the Gilbert Elevated Railway, subsequently reorganized as the Metropolitan Elevated Railway. By June 1878, its route ran north from the corner of Rector Street and Trinity Place up Trinity Place/Church…
Read More…was the birthplace of the Ninth Avenue Elevated Railway, the first truly elevated rail line. The “El” was conceived by Charles T. Harvey (June 26, 1829 – March 11, 1912)…
Read More…easily visible to commuters on the elevated rail line. The world’s first elevated rail line was dismantled and demolished in 1940, part of a wave of El removals in Manhattan…
Read More…Elevated to form the Manhattan Elevated Railway Company, which quickly started work on routes on Second, Third, and Sixth Avenues, all opening segments in 1878. (Note: what was known as…
Read More…1933. In 1979, just as all traffic on the Elevated line was coming to its final halt, Noah presciently proposed an elevated park be built upon the structural remains of…
Read More…ground on elevated lines like that seen in the photo. However, that percentage and the overall miles of elevated train lines used to be much higher. By the time this…
Read More…skyward on West 3rd Street to recall what was once up there – a maze of elevated train lines blocking the sky. For many years during the late nineteenth and…
Read More…Street stop on the Ninth Avenue elevated line. This was the city’s first elevated railway, opening in lower Manhattan as an experimental single-track cable powered line in 1868. The company…
Read More…those resources organized into categories, so you can take your own trip from the era of horse-drawn omnibuses to elevated railroads and subways. Come along and celebrate 200 years of…
Read More…at Gansevoort Street. But for most of the 20th century, the waterfront was dominated by an elevated highway (officially called the Miller Elevated Highway) that ran from West 72nd Street…
Read More…been granted to the black farmers and eventually took possession of all these lands. 8. The first elevated train The Ninth Avenue El near 14th Street c. 1914. Via Bain Collection, Library of…
Read More…elevated park offers residents and visitors sweeping Hudson River views, carefully manicured landscaping, and plenty of places to lounge, sit, people watch, and take in the cityscape from an unusual…
Read More…map, courtesy NYCsubway.org This 1934 photo (courtesy NYPL) shows the elevated station at the corner of First Ave & Houston St The elevated was taken down in 1942. All photos…
Read More…Google Maps. By 1881 the Sixth Avenue Elevated Railroad had a stop at West 14th Street which further increased the thoroughfare’s commercial traffic. The elevated train was a very popular…
Read MoreEast 9th Street looking west from 4th Avenue. Left photo via New York Public Library Yesterday we explored some of the history of elevated train lines in the Village. Today…
Read More…Side Elevated Line” that had transported millions of tons of meat, dairy, and produce to NYC starting in 1933. In 1979, Noah proposed an elevated park be built upon the…
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…and Dinky used to walk on the tracks of the old, abandoned “West Side Elevated Line” that had transported millions of tons of meat, dairy, and produce to New York…
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Read MoreThe West Side Elevated Highway had been a dark presence looming over the edge of the Meatpacking District and other Hudson River Manhattan neighborhoods for several decades in the mid-20th…
Read More…changing landscape of mid-century Third Avenue captured on film is the elevated rail across the street from these buildings: In 1878, the Manhattan Railway Company’s elevated railway opened above the…
Read More…of the Gansevoort Market Historic District, both proposed and advocated for by Village Preservation. The area had a spur of development following the construction of the nearby Miller Elevated Highway…
Read More…the first half of the 20th century, the subway system actually contracted in the mid-to-late 20th century, with several elevated subway lines dismantled during this period, including in our neighborhoods….
Read More…Avenue railroad—the city’s first elevated rail system. This early version of the Ninth Avenue el actually ran on a sets of moving cables (like San Franciso’s cable car system today),…
Read More…center. The alteration of existing buildings to serve market functions, a process begun in the 1880s, continued throughout the 1930s. The 1930s also saw the completion of the elevated West…
Read More…– who had never been the ‘activist’ type, never been involved in community rabble-rousing – fought the bureaucracy and won. It was so inspirational! The elevated railway that once served…
Read More…The alteration of existing buildings to serve market functions, a process begun in the 1880’s, continued throughout the 1930’s. The 1930’s also saw the completion of the elevated West Side…
Read More…property was needed by the railroad to build an elevated freight line. Almost a century later, much of the elevated train line ended up as the High Line, but the…
Read More…Housing and Redevelopment Board. They recommended sending telegrams, which we still recommend, just digitally. Committee to Save the West Village Newsletter Issue 3, covering the dismantling of the Elevated train…
Read More…rooftop gems, from hotel rooftop bars and restaurants to elevated parks to museums, theaters, green roofs and elevated farms. For us, Leslie will focus on the images in her book…
Read More…spaces built in New York in years” and, since opening in June of 2009, the elevated park has attracted over 2 million visitors. Originally built in the 1930s as part…
Read MoreWe’ve just added over a dozen wonderful new images to our historic image archive culled from recent landmarks applications in our neighborhoods. Some highlights include the old Ninth Avenue Elevated…
Read More…from the ground and from the elevated train. From the ground level, pedestrians would see the main entry surrounded by Corinthian columns, and the heavily ornamented doors and windows capped…
Read More…whole block from Horatio to Gansevoort Street, and its northern facade sits directly across from where the High Line dead-ends. When walking along the elevated park it almost appears as…
Read More…entrance to the Sixth Avenue elevated train at the bottom left (image courtesy Jason Cochran) Another view of the same, ca. 1892 Rowland Hussey Macy worked in his youth as…
Read More…was shot entirely on the High Line in 1984 back when it was nothing but a disused elevated railway line (the last train ran along the tracks in 1980). In…
Read More…for commercial shipping, but for recreational and open space. Related’s Redevelopment Proposal, dubbed “Vegas-on-the-Hudson” by detractors With the last crumbling remains of the elevated West Side Highway removed by the…
Read More…York Times reported the terrible scene: “Ladders were immediately elevated to the windows, but the longest of them could not reach above the fourth floor. The firemen rescued some of…
Read More…other things, accommodate drivers coming into Manhattan, allowing you to park your car there and then explore the city further by foot, streetcar, subway, or elevated train. The medallion. In…
Read MoreIn response to our recent post “A Sign That Tells More Than Just Street Names,” about the oddly ‘elevated’ street sign embedded above the third floor of 128 Charles Street,…
Read More…the elevated subway which ran past cummings’ home on Patchin Place. The el was torn down in 1939, just before the start of World War II, and its scrap metal…
Read More…Yiddish Art Theater, and the Academy of Music/Palladium on 14th Street all reflect this. The Variety in 1933, with the 3rd Avenue elevated to the right. Image via NYPL. The…
Read More…only obliquely references the Village with its mention of the old Sixth Avenue el, the elevated subway which ran past cummings’ home on Patchin Place. The el was torn down…
Read More…the former elevated freight rail line and turn it into a public park. One of the most frequent comments we hear about walking the High Line’s one-mile length is how…
Read More…Fifth Avenue through Washington Square Park, urban renewal high-rises in the Far West Village, and Westway, a highway meant to replace the crumbling west side elevated highway which closed in…
Read More…it sat underneath the 6th Avenue el. Despite being the ‘6th Avenue’ line, the elevated railway ran up West Broadway until it hit West 3rd Street, when it turned west…
Read More…Village, that includes the exterior of the building, and the also-long-gone elevated train. “The Hell Hole” by John Sloan, linked from The Bowery Boys (click for source) When you step…
Read MoreJohn Sloan’s ‘Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street,’ 1928. Today marks the birthday of great Greenwich Village artist and chronicler of everyday life in Lower Manhattan John Sloan, born August 2,…
Read More…2006, one of three remaining Fire Patrol houses in New York City (read more here and here). Here is an old photo from the days when the 6th Avenue elevated…
Read More…The former elevated railway converted to a beautifully landscaped public park winds its way from Gansevoort Street in the Far West Village up to 30th Street. This is a stunning…
Read More…Museum of Art. John Sloan, “Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street” (1928) William Glackens, “Washington Square Park” (1908) George Luks, “Bleecker and Carmine Streets” (c. 1915) Everett Shinn, “Washington Square,…
Read More…for the 5th Avenue bus. Elevated view of Washington Square Park where a large gathering of people are seen at lower left, May 1959. (Photo by Fred W. McDarrah/Getty Images)…
Read More…still seen as proletarian cloth.) More recently Ms. Shaum’s work has gained elevated fashion status and quite a bit of press as googling will show. Her prices have risen. During…
Read More…complex of two residential towers, elevated landscaped plaza, commercial strip, and below-grade parking [is] an impressive example of postwar urban renewal planning and design. Aerial view of proposed NYU plans…
Read More…developed in Chelsea following the Civil War; the elevated rail that brought women to shop along Ladies Mile during the day would also bring their husbands in the evenings to…
Read More…and elevated subway line at Cooper Square circa 1901. Postcard image courtesy of David Mulkins. Trolleys were an effective way to travel for decades and directly related to where development occurred…
Read More…live there, cheaply, especially if owners were willing to blow out the roof and windows, and add large ‘studio’ windows and elevated ceilings. Thus these tacked-on artists studios became an…
Read More…the collapsing, disused elevated West Side highway, to part of a lush new waterfront park bordered by ever-increasingly expensive real estate and development. The Christopher Street pier is no longer…
Read More…elevated, even earning a Zagat’s rating, among many other honors. And it’s located within the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District designated in October 2012 with our support and successful…
Read More…drivers coming into Manhattan, allowing you to park your car there and then explore the city further by foot, streetcar, subway, or elevated train. The Medallion In another oddly prescient…
Read More…was made official, and the name “Bowery” was forever marked in the record books. A postcard showing the Bowery, c. 1903, when it was home to an elevated train line….
Read More…Cornelius Davis to institute a system of running the school in which higher-achieving students were elevated to take part of the education of their peers, passing on information, gaining independence,…
Read More…as did much of this area in the late 19th century (the Bowery, which began here, had become New York’s Skid Row, and a noisy, dark, elevated train line ran…
Read More…a testament to her extraordinary life. The Whitney Museum, which she founded, was the first museum dedicated to contemporary American Art, and elevated such art considerably just as the United…
Read More…replaced by an elevated planter, facing Bank Street. I was especially moved by how the Westbeth Community came together after Hurricane Sandy. The basement, which was a labyrinth of residents’…
Read More…the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company, though he was fired from that job. Later, Randel was also involved in the planning for the first elevated subway. The southernmost point of…
Read More…location of the photo of the elevated subway below. I originally guessed it was Brooklyn. What do you think? This Uncle Junior lookalike is featured in an unidentified “Jewish Deli”…
Read More…block looking right was the Bell Telephone Laboratory (now Westbeth), with an elevated railroad track that ran right through the middle of the building … back then, to my eyes,…
Read MoreLast week we solved one of our longstanding historic photo mysteries, when Eric Robinson, the cousin of the photographer, Carole Teller, was able to identify the location of this elevated train which…
Read More…society of the mid-1950s. Ginsberg sang the downtrodden, howled the words urgently needed to be said, and elevated the devastated and disenfranchised with the lyrical music of his poetry. “Nobody…
Read More…beneath the elevated Christ on one side of the cross and Saint John the Evangelist on the other, a scene described in the Gospel of John, Chapter 19. In 1897…
Read More…brings the winter holidays into focus. The Tenement Museum wrote, “Passengers riding the elevated train through the Lower East Side on a December night in the 1890s would have seen hundreds…
Read More…Scotch eggs, or, what Ricky Gervais calls “a delicious and nutritious path to cardiac arrest.” There’s also a solid chicken-liver pâté with onion jam, Berkshire-pork sliders, and an elevated grilled…
Read More…In New York, Gág made lithographs of her surroundings, including this one of an elevated train station. Image via collections.artsmia.org. An essay on Gág from the Minnesota Historical Society explains…
Read More…in 1974 he established Milton Glaser, Inc. By the mid-1970s New York City had a serious public image problem due to its elevated crime rate and the fact that it…
Read More…the 1970s Here’s another ca. 1974 Jack Dowling photograph of an abandoned vehicle on the Greenwich Village waterfront looking south towards the World Trade Center with the elevated Miller (West…
Read More…Street elevated rail line in the 1860s, known as the “el,” which distributed goods sold at the bustling Gansevoort and West Washington markets, opened in 1884 and 1887 respectively. The…
Read More…part of a deal with the New York Central Railroad in exchange for property the parish owned that the railroad needed for its new elevated freight line (now known as…
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