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53rd Street and Eighth Avenue station

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with an additional lower level in 1933, thus rendering the elevated station and line obsolete. It closed on December 4, 1938. The next southbound stop was
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as part of an effort to connect the northern end of the Sixth Avenue Line to the Ninth Avenue Line. It had three tracks and two
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Former Manhattan Railway elevated station (closed 1938)
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Railway stations in the United States closed in 1938
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Railway stations in the United States opened in 1881
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Manhattan Railway
Upper Manhattan
Manhattan
40°45′50.94″N 73°59′5.1″W / 40.7641500°N 73.984750°W / 40.7641500; -73.984750
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Sixth Avenue Line
side platforms
Interborough Rapid Transit
59th Street
155th Street
Sixth Avenue
50th Street
South Ferry
IRT Sixth Avenue Line
Manhattan
New York City
Manhattan Railway Company
side platforms
IRT Sixth Avenue Line
a train jumped over the rails
Ninth Avenue
50th Street
Independent Subway System
50th Street Station
Eighth Avenue Subway
50th Street
59th Street
"Days of Yore Recalled as 'L' Line Goes"
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9th Avenue El (Forgotten NY.com)

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