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The 3rd Avenue Elevated line in Manhattan was constructed between 1875 and 1878 by the New York Elevated Railway Company. The line was to run from City Hall along the Bowery and Third Avenue to the Harlem River.
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 York Elevated Railway, an independent railway company, it was acquired by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) and eventually became part ...
13 lis 2022 · The 3rd Avenue El lasted long enough to be rather more chronicled on film and in publications than other Manhattan elevated lines. Color photos of the el, in the stations and on the street, can be seen in Lawrence Stelter’s marvelous By the El: Third Avenue and Its El at Mid-Century.
17 sty 1999 · EL. Not much remains of the Third Avenue Elevated, which ran from Chatham Square, in the City Hall area, all the way to Gun Hill and White Plains Roads in the Bronx, from 1878 to 1955.
Browse 81 third avenue el photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images. 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...
9 gru 2020 · The Library of Congress archival collections holds a c. 1881 map and guide of these different “Els”: the “Eastern Division, which included the Second Avenue and Third Avenue lines; and the “Western Division,” which included the Sixth Avenue and Ninth Avenue Lines.
8 mar 2008 · The Third Avenue line was extended in 1886 north across the Harlem River into the Annexed District, later known as The Bronx. Peter Derrick, a historian with the Bronx County Historical Society, notes that this development opened the then-remote area to settlement by people who worked in Manhattan; the population of the Bronx swelled almost ...
