- City:
- New York, New York City, NY
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Mass Transportation
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
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)Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on November 26, 2014.
At this Location:
- IND Sixth Avenue Subway Line - New York NY
- IND Sixth Avenue Subway: Broadway–Lafayette Street Station - New York NY
- IND Sixth Avenue Subway: Second Avenue [Houston Street] Station - New York NY
- IND Sixth Avenue Subway: Delancey Street Station - New York NY
- IND Sixth Avenue Subway: East Broadway Station - New York NY
- IND Sixth Avenue Subway: Rutgers Street Tunnel - New York to Brooklyn NY
- IND Sixth Avenue Subway: York Street Station - Brooklyn NY
- IND Sixth Avenue Subway: West Fourth Street Station - New York NY
- IND Sixth Avenue Subway: 14th Street Station - New York NY
- IND Sixth Avenue Subway: 23rd Street Station - New York NY
- IND Sixth Avenue Subway: 34th Street Station - New York NY
- IND Sixth Avenue Subway: 42nd Street Station - New York NY
- IND Sixth Avenue Subway: 47th–50th Streets Station - New York NY
At this Location:
- IND Sixth Avenue Subway: Second Avenue [Houston Street] Station - New York NY
- IND Sixth Avenue Subway Line - New York NY
- IND Sixth Avenue Subway: Delancey Street Station - New York NY
- IND Subway Queens Branch: Van Wyck Boulevard Station - Jamaica NY
- IND Sixth Avenue Subway: East Broadway Station - New York NY
- IND Subway Queens Branch: Sutphin Boulevard [Hillside Avenue] Station - Jamaica NY
- IND Sixth Avenue Subway: Rutgers Street Tunnel - New York to Brooklyn NY
- IND Subway Queens Branch: Parsons Boulevard Station - Jamaica NY
- IND Sixth Avenue Subway: York Street Station - Brooklyn NY
- IND Subway Queens Branch: 169th Street Station - Jamaica NY
- IND Sixth Avenue Subway: West Fourth Street Station - New York NY
- IND Subway Queens Branch: Elmhurst Avenue Station - Elmhurst NY
- IND Sixth Avenue Subway: 14th Street Station - New York NY
- IND Subway Queens Branch: Grand Avenue Station - Elmhurst NY
- IND Sixth Avenue Subway: 23rd Street Station - New York NY
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