Walking the El Frame Color:Brown The Victoria

The Victoria

” January 14

Yanks' Winning Streak at 7 - Blanchard Hits 2 Homers - Skowron

Onlookers tip their hats and wave as the mighty R

five days after the civil rights leader was assassinated

Walking the El Frame Color:Brown The VictoriaThe end came abruptly for the Third Avenue El. At 6: 04 p. m. on May 12, 1955 appropriately four minutes behind schedule the last elevated uptown train rolled out of Chinatown, bound for the Bronx and then for incineration, Sewell Chan of The Times wrote in 2005. Subway ridership was declining steadily, and elevated railways, at least in Manhattan, were seen as a thing of the past. So down they went: Sixth Avenue in 1938, Ninth Avenue in 1940 and