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Second Avenue El by Alexander Nobler Cohen -The Third Rail Online - July 2001 |
 | | The roar of metal striking against metal was like a hammer on an anvil, the crash echoing and reechoing through the hundreds of iron girders and braces and sweeping in undulating waves through the streets, ricocheting and reverberating through the brick and stone canyons of the city. |
 | | In fact, service ended on the Sixth Avenue el in 1938, as construction progressed on the new Sixth Avenue subway.In the early 1940's, under the Mayoralty of Fiorello La Guardia, the Second and Ninth Avenue els also were abandoned and demolished. |
 | | When the Second Avenue el came down, New York lost a rapid transit line, and the city's era of incredible transit expansion came to an end. |
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