Abstract

Chapter 9 is a discussion of the efforts to build the 2nd Avenue Subway. It traces that line's history from its initial proposal as part of the 1929 Board of Transportation plan through the modern era, This chapter also looks at earlier proposals made to build a subway trunk line up through the East Side of Manhattan.This chapter also looks at the fate of the elevated subway lines that once ran the length of Manhattan Island, including examining with the legend of the structural steel for those lines once they were demolished.

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