Subway Construction Photograph Collection. Contract Four. Route 49, 1915-1941

The 377 Contract Four, Route 49 photographs show construction by the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT) of the Culver Line from around Tenth Avenue and 37th Street along Gravesend Avenue (now McDonald Avenue) to Coney Island in Brooklyn (the F train). The route covers the following sections: Section 1-A, from west of Tenth Avenue between 37th Street and 38th Street to a point east of Tenth Avenue; Section 1, from east of Tenth Avenue parallel to 37th Street to Gravesend Avenue, and along Gravesend Avenue to south of Twenty-Second Avenue (now Bay Parkway); Section 2, Gravesend Avenue from Twenty-Second Avenue to Avenue X; and Section 3, from Shell Road and Avenue X to West 6th Street and Sheepshead Bay Road. The series also includes many photographs of the Coney Island Yard.