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IND Sixth Avenue Subway: Old Elevated Line Demolition – New York NY

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Mass Transportation
Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
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Description

Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers helped to dismantle the Sixth Avenue elevated train line in Manhattan, which was replaced by the new Sixth Avenue IND subway, a Public Works Administration (PWA) project.

Source notes

"New Deal New York -- Midtown Manhattan," online appendix to Mason B. Williams, City of Ambition: FDR, La Guardia, and the Making of Modern New York (New York: Norton, 2013)

Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on November 26, 2014.

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Location Info

Sixth Avenue
New York, NY

Coordinates: 40.74713, -73.9897

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