Image Collection 2992 Items Subway Construction Photograph Collection, Independent City Lines. Route 101, 1926-1944 The 2,992 Independent Subway System (IND) Route 101 photographs show construction on the Eighth Avenue Line (the A train and C train) from Greenwich Village south to Fulton Street in Manhattan, and into Brooklyn via the Cranberry Street Tunnel under the East River. View Collection
Image Collection 768 Items Subway Construction Photograph Collection. Contract Four. Route 45, 1928-1931 The 768 Contract Four, Route 45 photographs show construction by the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT) of a portion of the Nassau Street-Jamaica Line from South Street to Park Row in Manhattan (the J and Z). The route is divided into the following sections: Section 1, from Nassau Street and Liberty Street to Park Row near the Municipal Building and the Brooklyn Bridge elevated station; and Section 2, from Broad Street and South Street to Nassau Street and Liberty Street. View Collection
Image Collection 1816 Items Subway Construction Photograph Collection. Contract Four. Route 33, 1914-1931 The 1,816 Contract Four, Route 33 photographs show the construction by the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT) of the continuation of the Broadway Line from Manhattan into Brooklyn via the Montague Street Tunnel (the R train), connecting to the Fourth Avenue Line in Brooklyn. View Collection
Image Collection 1809 Items Subway Construction Photograph Collection. Contract Three. Route 48, 1912-1924 The 1,809 Contract Three, Route 48 photographs show construction by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) of the Brooklyn Branch of the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line (the 2 train and 3 train) from Park Place in Manhattan to Clark Street and Borough Hall in Brooklyn. The route covers the following sections: Section 1, Park Place under City Hall Park and along Beekman Street to William Street; Section 2, William Street to Hanover Square; and Section 3, Old Slip in Manhattan to Clark Street in Brooklyn, passing under the East River via the Clark Street Tunnel. View Collection
Image Collection 2872 Items Subway Construction Photograph Collection. Contract Two, 1903-1921 (bulk 1904-1907) The 2,869 Contract Two photographs show the continuation of subway construction by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), connecting City Hall on the Lexington Avenue Line in Manhattan to Atlantic Avenue on the Eastern Parkway Line in Brooklyn via the Joralemon Street Tunnel under the East River (the 4 train and 5 train). There are many photographs of buildings along Joralemon Street in Brooklyn Heights. Other photographs show the subway being constructed beneath the elevated tracks along major arteries such as Flatbush Avenue. View Collection