IRT Ninth Avenue Line
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irt-ninth-avenue-line-165-15398965
title:
IRT Ninth Avenue Line
text:
The IRT Ninth Avenue Line, often called the Ninth Avenue Elevated or Ninth Avenue El, was the first elevated railway in New York City. It opened in July 1868 as the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway, as an experimental single-track cable-powered elevated railway from Battery Place, at the south end of Manhattan Island, northward up Greenwich Street to Cortlandt Street. By 1879 the line was extended to the Harlem River at 155th Street. It was electrified and taken over by the Interborough Rapi
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Former New York City rapid transit line
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRT_Ninth_Avenue_Line
date created:
2005-01-01T21:53:36Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T17:15:12Z
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