“Elevated trains were the fastest mode of mass transit in the late 19th century. Lurching and groaning high above the sidewalks along almost all of New York’s avenues, they whisked people to work, to school, to the theater, to Central Park, to department store shopping—all for a nickel per ride. At night, the elevated invited intrigue. Everett Shinn, former newspaper illustrator best known as a member of the Ashcan School of social realism painting, captures a moment at one end of a poorly lit all-male car in his 1899 work, ‘Sixth Avenue Elevated After Midnight.’”
2017 January: 34th Street (1903), 2019 September: The fantasy of window shopping in New York City, 2020 December: A food vendor’s Christmas on 14th Street in 1904
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