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By the EL Third Avenue and Its EL at Mid-Century by Lawrence Stetler Hard Cover
By the EL Third Avenue and Its EL at Mid-Century by Lawrence Stetler
Hard Cover
Copyright 1995
124 Pages
Indexed
Table Of Contents
Presage03
Lothar Stelter, Photographer03
Foreword 05
Introductions06
Acknowledgements07
Dedication07
Preface07
Manhattan Map08
Brief History Of Manhattan Els09
Chapter One: The Third Avenue Elas An Edifice10
Stations And Stained Glass10
Structure 20
The `El' And The Snow22
En Route The `El'30
Passengers 30
Rolling Stock32
The Rear Door 33
Chapter Two: Atrip Up Third Ave 34
Neighborhoods & Landmarks34
Chinatown35
The Bowery-Lower Eastside36
Cooper Sq.-Lower East Side40
Gramercy Park-Bellevue45
Murray Hill-Kips Bay48
Midtown-Turtle Bay55
Lenox Hill76
Yorkville82
East Harlem95
The End108
Chapter Three: Epilog116
Remnants117
A Trip Up Today's Third Avenue118
Bibliography123
Charles Addams Cartoon124
Black and white and color photos.
This is a handsomely produced book of vivid photos and old-timers' reminiscences of the Third Avenue Elevated trains that dominated the skyline of Manhattan and the Bronx. Its 200+ full-color photos are mostly from the years shortly before the El was abandoned in 1953 -- divided between pictures of the trains and stations, and the urban life that teemed under and around them. The pictures show neighborhoods filled with mom-and-pop stores, among them a striking number of bars and pawn shops. Street life is well chronicled, and most East Side landmarks (e.g., the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings) feature prominently. Some of the most dramatic photos show the demolition of the elevated structures. The book will appeal to amateur (and maybe professional) historians of New York city's general history and culture, as well as to railroad and mass-transit buffs. The book has the endorsement of the New York City Transit Museum and The Bronx County Historical Society. (It was the subway and elevated train system that directly led to the development of The Bronx by making the remote borough accessible to the business center of New York, downtown.) Joe Franklin, the venerable nostaglist to whose radio program nearly every New Yorker used to listen faithfully, wrote an introduction. So did officials of the transit museum and Bronx historical society. The photos have all been newly digitized and restored to their original vivid colors.
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