elevatedtrain

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This station was two stops north of Chatham Square.

Signs in the photo show this was the Chatham Square station. City Hall is not shown, but the tall building at upper right is the 40-story Manhattan Municipal Building, first occupied in 1913. The view is approximately southwest along Park Row. Cowperthwaite & Sons, at center, was a large home furnishings company founded in 1807, and located at 193-205 Park Row in Chatham Square. The sign on its building says "now in its 106th year", dating the picture to not before 1913. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Municipal_Building books.google.com/books?id=ZHcxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA78-IA10&a... This picture was probably taken to illustrate the January 17 1916 opening of an express line at the station (the left hand platform in this picture, with tracks going on an upward grade). select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50811FD3B5B1773... All of these tracks and structures have been demolished.

I really like it. It's superb.

Approaching 3rd Avenue and 42d street express station ("humped" track to right), opened January 17, 1916.
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No, this is a street. At left, an elevated section of metro or elevated train over the road. Under the track, streetcars are running. At right there is a stair that looks like an access to an station.

Thanks tgva325 for your sharp observation of the scene. We'll fix the title in the source data and reload the description.

I do not think this is Boston. As far as I know, there have only been a couple old elevated streetcar lines, and I do not recall any of them looking like this. The second paragraph on the link below indicates that this picture may well have been taken in Sioux City: genforum.genealogy.com/sellon/messages/101.html

As far as I can see, the streetcars are running UNDER the bridge, which is for an elevated electric train, like those in New York, Chicago and Boston. Sioux City elevated railway was closed in 1899 and as far as I know, it hadn´t streetcars tracks under it.

It could certainly be Boston. The sign in the upper right references the Boston Candy Store. Also, there were elevated railways in Boston beyond just the portion of the Green and Red Lines that remain above ground and elevated. What's now the Orange Line was at one point elevated, too. The Essex Street station was a copper-clad building, now preserved at the Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine. It would be interesting to see if the steel girders matched the preserved station. That said, if this is Boston, it's most likely near North Station.