- City:
- New York, New York City, NY
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Mass Transportation
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
Description
Construction of New York’s Sixth Avenue subway line was enabled by the federal Public Works Administration (PWA) during the 1930s. The PWA supplied a massive loan and grant totaling $23,160,000 for the project, one of the largest New Deal construction undertakings in the country. The Sixth Avenue was a branch of the original IND Eighth Avenue line, opened in 1932.
Four stations opened in southern Manhattan in January 1934; an extension to Brooklyn opened April 1934. An extension taking the line up Sixth Avenue, with six new stations, opened December 1940.
Source notes
"La Guardia Opens New Subway Link"; The New York Times, January 2, 1936. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IND_Sixth_Avenue_LineSite originally submitted by Evan Kalish on November 26, 2014.
At this Location:
- IND Sixth Avenue Subway: Old Elevated Line Demolition - 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: Old Elevated Line Demolition - 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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