Walking the El photography-url The glowing message didn't refer

The glowing message didn't refer to impending disaster in the hardscrabble neighborhood

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Walking the El photography-url The glowing message didn't referThe end came abruptly for the Third Avenue El. At 6: 04 p. m. on May 12, 1955 appropriately four minutes behind schedule the last elevated uptown train rolled out of Chinatown, bound for the Bronx and then for incineration, Sewell Chan of The Times wrote in 2005. Subway ridership was declining steadily, and elevated railways, at least in Manhattan, were seen as a thing of the past. So down they went: Sixth Avenue in 1938, Ninth Avenue in 1940 and