Similar Posts
She Found A New Home!!
Let me speak on behalf of the little dog who was left to die in a snowstorm two nights ago: THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! My girlfriend and I just got back from dropping off our unexpected pal to her new home with a very warm and loving married couple, who I…
Scouting NY At Union Docs This Sunday!
Hey everyone – I’ll be appearing at a UnionDocs speaking event in Williamsburg this Sunday, for anyone who’d like to join. The subject is on street historians, and also appearing will be Kevin Walsh of the unparalleled Forgotten-NY.com, Moses Gates of All City New York, and Cindy VandenBosch of UrbanOyster. More info here! In a…
Friday Wrap-Up: Still Eating Brains?, Some Young Guy, and More
Friday’s finally here, and it’s time for another wrap-up of various odds and ends from a week in scouting. First, I was checking out a rooftop in the East Village when I noticed this interesting ice formation from the drain… …which, if you look at it from the right angle, looks like a very sinister…
$500 Match Offer Update!
UPDATE! Since the offer was made on January 14, not only did we hit the $500 mark for the match donation, we’re up to $760 $810 $820 $876 $966.50 $1,100.09 and counting! Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed, both today and in the past. It means so much to have such awesome…
Check Out The New Scouting NY Sticker!
As you probably know, I always send out a Scouting NY sticker/magnet to readers who donate to my film fund. I just ran out of last year’s version, so it’s time to unveil the new Scouting NY sticker, celebrating that unique manner in which New Yorkers can ignore pretty much anything… I know I left…
Gone Fishin’
It’s been four stressful, hectic and bitter cold months, but our film is finally wrapped and I’m heading off today for a much needed vacation. So there’ll be a bit of a hiatus til the next post… …which I can’t resist at least mentioning now! I just had the incredible opportunity of scouting a children’s…
8 Comments
Comments are closed.
I always wear my top hat on the one train.
Are there any remnents left of any Manhattan el lines? I know the highline, but was that really an el?
No traces left in Manhattan, just a segment in the Bronx.
The #1 train going up Broadway becomes elevated for one station at 125th Street. It becomes elevated again at the northern tip of Manhattan, just before continuing into the Bronx.
The High Line was an elevated freight line, not a passenger el. There aren’t any remnants of any els left in Manhattan that I know of, no, they were all torn down.
The Broadway local (#1 train) runs above ground across Manhattanville, just north of Morningside Heights. That, essentially, is an el.
It’s not really an el, it’s a viaduct…it’s simply there to span the low section in the topography where the ground dips below the level of the subway.
It’s hard to comment on this without falling into a meme-perpetuating trap, so I’ll just say: “Wow!” and “Fun!” 😀 .