Proposed ‘arcade railway’ below Broadway would aid 1860s gridlock

Aug 3, 2018 |

Broadway Arcade Railway, 1884, New York Transit Museum, via Wikimedia Commons Post-Civil War, pre-subway New York City had–surprise–a traffic problem. The number of horse cars and stages that clogged the streets was growing at an alarming rate. Among the proposed solutions was a railway that would be built beneath Broadway, branching out to the east and west […more]

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