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3rd Avenue line,
Bowery and Division Street, 1936
Christopher and Greenwich Streets, 1936
72nd St and Columbus Ave, 1936
Extinct: The 'El'. Once a steam train that puffed
up and down Manhattan 3 stories up, it converted to
electricity in 1903, before being demolished in 1955.
All photographs by Berenice Abbott, at the NYPL.