Walking the El Frame Color:Unframed if not the world

if not the world

a family who loves you

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This photo by Times photographer Ernie Sisto captures the action in the fifth inning at the Polo Grounds

Walking the El Frame Color:Unframed if not the worldThe 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