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[Third Avenue El.]

[Third Avenue El.]

[Dismantling the Third Avenue El.]

[Dismantling the Third Avenue El.]

[Cutting rails.]

[Cutting rails.]

[Third Avenue El between 10th and 11th Streets.]

[Third Avenue El between 10th and 11th Streets.]

[Third Avenue El at 29th Street.]

[Third Avenue El at 29th Street.]

[Third Avenue El from 27th Street.]

[Third Avenue El from 27th Street.]

[Cutting through tresses of the Third Avenue El near Cooper Square.]

[Cutting through tresses of the Third Avenue El near Cooper Square.]

[Third Avenue El.]

[Third Avenue El.]

[Third Avenue El, 9th Street Station.]

[Third Avenue El, 9th Street Station.]

[Removal of section of handrail of the Third Avenue El.]

[Removal of section of handrail of the Third Avenue El.]

[Third Avenue El at 6th Street.]

[Third Avenue El at 6th Street.]

[Third Avenue El at the corner of St. Mark's Place.]

[Third Avenue El at the corner of St. Mark's Place.]

[Third Avenue El from the roof of Cooper Union.]

[Third Avenue El from the roof of Cooper Union.]

[Removal of sections of rail.]

[Removal of sections of rail.]

[Third Avenue El at Houston.]

[Third Avenue El at Houston.]

[Dismantling the Third Avenue El train.]

[Dismantling the Third Avenue El train.]

[Third Avenue El, northward from 5th Street.]

[Third Avenue El, northward from 5th Street.]

[Third Avenue El from the Cooper Union.]

[Third Avenue El from the Cooper Union.]

[Cutting through trusses of the Third Avenue El near Cooper Square.]

[Cutting through trusses of the Third Avenue El near Cooper Square.]

[Third Avenue El at 7th Street.]

[Third Avenue El at 7th Street.]

[Cutting the rails of the Third Avenue El.]

Photographer Calvin S. Hathaway
Accession number X2010.11.9001 
Unique identifier MNY223272 
Dated October 3, 1955 
Inscription / technical details In ink, on verso: Monday 3 October 1955 / Cutting of rails. 
File dimensions 9.4 in × 14.0 in at 300dpi
24.0 cm × 35.5 cm at 300dpi 

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