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Manhattan: 8th Avenue - 59th Street

1927

Manhattan: 8th Avenue - 59th Street

Eighth Avenue at 59th Street, Columbus Circle, showing excavation for Eighth Avenue subway. In the course of constructing the 59th Street station, the Columbus Monument was moved. About 1927. Photograph by Ewing Galloway.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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