Walking the El Frame Color:Brown Onlookers tip their hats and

Onlookers tip their hats and wave as the mighty R

The Victoria

pretty soon it gets you hot under the collar

” January 14

painted by polls

Walking the El Frame Color:Brown Onlookers tip their hats andThe 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