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NEW YORK City

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9th Ave. Elevated IRT

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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 on July 3, 1868 as the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway,

as an experimental single-track cable-powered elevated railway from Battery Place,

at the south end of Manhattan Island, northward up Greenwich Street to Cortlandt Street.

It ceased operation on June 11, 1940, after it was replaced by the IND Eighth Avenue Line

which had opened in 1932.

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Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, looking south from 49 Greenwich Street,

1891.

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Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 110th Street,

June 3-5, 1940

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Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 125th Street,

June 3-5, 1940

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Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 130th Street station east,

December 1, 1940

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Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 155th Street,

June 3-5, 1940 -2

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Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 155th Street,

June 3-5, 1940. -3

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Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 155th Street,

June 3-5, 1940

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Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at South Ferry, looking south,

June 3-5, 1940

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Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 14th Street,

June 3-5, 1940.

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Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 50th Street,

October 22, 1940.

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Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 58th Street,

November 1, 1940

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Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 59th Street,

November 5, 1940.

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Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 104th Street,

October 29, 1940. -2

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Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 104th Street,

October 29, 1940.

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Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 105th Street Columbus Avenue north,

December 15, 1940

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Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 110th Street ['laying the mats'],

November 20, 1940

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Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 110th Street and 8th Avenue,

November 19, 1940

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Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 110th Street,

November 1, 1940.

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Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 121st Street and Eighth Avenue,

December 20, 1940

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Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 145th Street station looking northeast from 144th Street,

January 7, 1941.

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Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at 150th Street north,

December 22, 1940.

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Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Battery Place Station,

November 25, 1940.

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Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at Cortlandt Street station,

January 10, 1941.

Demolition in progress

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Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan,

December 23, 1940.

View looking north from 98th Street.

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Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at the 155th Street car yards,

August 25, 1940. -2

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Ninth Avenue El, Manhattan, at the 155th Street car yards,

August 25, 1940. -3

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