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Horse drawn streetcars started running in New York City in 1832.In 1898 walking and street cars were the most popular modes of transportation in the city. Ferries were used to get from New Jersey, Staten Island and Brooklyn to Manhattan. The rich had their own carrages and the poor could not afford the expensive fares of hired cabs. However, an article in The Outlook in 1898 makes the folowing interesting comment about the hired cabs" "Their fares are mainly persons invited to the ostentatious funerals so dear to our Irish and Italian fellow-citizens of the humbler sort; persons going to occasional social affairs; and to strangers picked up at the steamer-landings and railroad stations"In 1898 on the evelated cars; "The fare is always five cents, and for this, on the island, you may ride on the elevated roads from One Hundred and Seventieth Street and Third Avenue clear around the city to Eight Avenue and One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Street--- nearly twenty miles" |
Third Avenue El
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Collection of
Maggie Land Blanck
THE ELEVATED RAILWAY, THIRD AVENUE, NEW YORK, No date. The Third Avenue Elevated Train line was built in 1878. Notice the train above and the horse drawn trollies on tracks below. |
"Crosstown Rapid Transit, 1905, N.Y. City" | |
Postcard collection of Maggie Land Blanck | |
Munsey magazine, 1902, collection of Maggie Land Blanck |
"THE EVOLUTION OF MANHATTAN-- MODERN IMPROVEMENTS HAVE THEIR PENALTIES, AS THE SLIPPERY ASHALT SHOWS ON A SLEETY
DAY IN WINTER; BUT THIS PROLEM WILL BE SOLVED WHEN THE AUTOMOBILE SUPERSEDES THE HORSE FOR
CITY TRACTION." Yes, but..... |
Postcard collection of Maggie Land Blanck | |
Traffic on West Side Highway, Looking North
From 46th Street, New York City
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You Would Think We Would Learn | |
New York City, State, and Nation by Sol Holt, a 1955 Junior High School civics book. | |
The caption on this page reads
" Although the slow horse-drawn wagons have almost disappeared from our streets, the many thousands of automobiles, trucks and buses still cause many traffic jams and delays, as shown above. Our tunnels and bridges carry so many motor vehicles into New York every day that the city has a serious traffic problem" |
Ferries
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Outlook magazine, 1898, collection of Maggie Land Blanck | |
Ferryboats in the Ice
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Postcard collection of Maggie Land Blanck | |
Municipal Ferry Boat, Posted 1910
"MUNICIPAL FERRY OPERATIONThe article goes on to say that the city had been losing money on the ferry operations. Apparently waterfront property had also decreased in value after the opening of the bridges. | |
Postcard collection of Maggie Land Blanck I have two versions of this car. One posted in 1907 the other in 1908. The 1907 card is black and white and labeled "New York Harbor from Brooklyn Bridge" |
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Postcard collection of Maggie Land Blanck Governor's Island from the East River Bridge, New York Posted 1906. The East River Bridge was known as the Brooklyn Bridge. |
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Postcard collection of Maggie Land Blanck | |
New York Ferry Boat to Hoboken Not posted. The ferry in this post card was the PRINCETON. Late in the afternoon of December 17, 1901 on her run to Jersey City the PRINCETON crashed into her sister vessel the HUDSON CITY in the heavy snow and mist off the Desbrosses Street pier. The boat was crowed with passengers and horse dawn vehicles. Nether boat received serious damage but there was considerable panic among the passengers, two of whom were injured. | |
The New Metropolis, 1899 - Collection of Maggie Land Blanck Grand Street Ferry Depot |
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