Proposed Arcade Railway, Under Broadway, View Near Wall Street – Vintage Photo Print
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Proposed Arcade Railway, Under Broadway, View Near Wall Street. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Proposed Arcade Railway, Under Broadway, View Near Wall Street
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Rather than a built line, this view shows a proposed railway running beneath Broadway near Wall Street in lower Manhattan. The scheme comes from the late 1860s, when street congestion was pushing New York's transit planners to look underground, and it is closely associated with Alfred Ely Beach, whose pneumatic transit ideas produced a short demonstration tunnel under Broadway in 1870. The picture is worth studying for how it presents the underground route as a broad public arcade rather than a cramped tunnel, which reflects the confidence of the era's transit promoters.
| Original scan | 3,000 × 2,328 px · prints to 10 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 20 |
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