Subway by John E. Morris

Author:John E. Morris [E. MORRIS, JOHN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Running Press
Published: 2020-10-06T00:00:00+00:00

Before it was widened for the IND subway in the 1930s, Houston Street was like other narrow streets in the older parts of Manhattan.

Houston Street was once a narrow street like Bleecker and Prince Streets on either side of it. In the 1930s, the IND transformed Houston into a broad but charmless boulevard cutting across the island, carrying the Sixth Avenue tracks (B, D, F, M) to the Lower East Side and Brooklyn. Again, empty lots and the almost windowless walls of many buildings on the south side testify to the structures that had been there before. Since 2000, the lots between Lafayette Street and Sixth Avenue that sat empty for more than 60 years have slowly been filled with new buildings.

Chrystie Street was radically altered in the 1930s when the city leveled dozens of tenement buildings along its east side to create Sara D. Roosevelt Park. Beginning in 1957, the park was torn up and more buildings were taken down for the Chrystie Street Connection, linking lines on the Manhattan Bridge (B, D) and the Williamsburg Bridge (M) to the IND tracks on East Houston leading to Sixth Avenue.

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