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Tag Archives: subway
Louis Faurer, New York, late 1940s
Louis Faurer, Playground, New York, New York, 1947 (2013.99.46) Louis Faurer, [Woman on street with newspaper, New York], 1947 (2013.99.36) Louis Faurer, 42nd Street, New York, ca. 1948 (2013.99.31) Louis Faurer, Indian Summer, New York, 1949 (2013.99.50) One hundred and … Continue reading
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Tagged Louis Faurer, Manhattan, New York, New York City, subway
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“As the train came into the station it began lurching from side to side. Then it stopped. Lights went out.”
On Sunday, April 26th, 1942, Louis Viebuchen, a 48 year old resident of Newark, New Jersey, arrived at work in the late afternoon. Viebuchen was a motorman on the Hudson and Manhattan railroad, with over twenty years of experience. At … Continue reading
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Tagged 1942, Jersey City, made in New Jersey, New Jersey, PATH, PM, subway, train, transportation, Weegee, Weegee Wednesday
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Buenos Aires Above and Below Ground
Jim Dow, Main Entrance, Retiro Station, Buenos Aires, 1989 (199.1999.4) Jim Dow, Telegram Office at Railroad Station, San Luis, Argentina, 1989 (119.1999.8) Jim Dow, Platform at Peru Station, Subway Line “A,” Buenos Aires, 1898 (199.1999.9) Jim Dow, Subway Car Interior … Continue reading
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60 years ago today the Third Avenue El closed in Manhattan
Arnold Eagle (1909-1992), Third Avenue El; Chatham Square Station, New York, ca. 1940, (461.1987) Arnold Eagle, Third Avenue El; 34th Street Station, New York, 1943, (479.1987) Arnold Eagle, Third Avenue El; Looking Up from 27th Street, New York, ca. 1938, … Continue reading
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Tagged Arnold Eagle, Berenice Abbott, Bowery, Chatham Square, El, Manhattan, New York City Subway, subway, Third Avenue, Vivian Cherry, Weegee
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Weegee Wednesdays: Weegee Does New Jersey. Or, “I always got lost in Jersey.”
Unidentified Photographer, Weegee on Lindbergh Case, Flemington N.J., ca. 1935, (19796.1993) Three days and 73 years ago, on April 26, 1942, Weegee photographed a tragic train crash in the Exchange Place station on the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad. (Low ridership … Continue reading
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Tagged 1942, 1944, Clare Boothe Luce, Exchange Place, fire, Hudson and Manhattan Railroad, Jersey City, New Jersey, Newark, nudist, Palisades Park, PATH, PM, subway, train, Weegee, Weegee Wednesday
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Sand Hogs of New York City
Carl Mydans, [Sand Hog, working under the East River, New York], 1939 (190.2005) New Yorkers are no stranger to train delays…weeknights, weekends; no time is exempt from rerouted or non-existent service. But who are the tireless workers who control the fate … Continue reading
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Tagged commute, construction, documentary, miners, MTA, New York, sand hogs, subway, train, transportation, tunnels
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Fifty Years on the New York City Subway
Weegee, Subway Serves as Blackout Shelter, August 13, 1943 Lee Sievan, Ninth Avenue Local, South Ferry, 1940s Danny Lyon, IRT 2, South Bronx, New York City, 1979 Bruce Davidson, New York Subway, 1980 Steven Siegel, Fourth Avenue Subway Station, 1995
The Elevated
In a speech at a town hall meeting in Brooklyn in 1934, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia admitted to his audience that “Right now we have…structures stuck up in the air which will have to be torn down…. New York City … Continue reading
Tagged Arnold Eagle, Berenice Abbott, Jeff Liao, New York City, subway, Weegee
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