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This one-hour zoom program presents the vast history of the New York Elevated Subway lines. Presented in vivid photographs by Oscar Israelowitz.
Israelowitz will start the program in Manhattan with the early lines above Second, Third, Sixth, and Ninth Avenues, exploring some of the historic sites along those routes, including the Castle Clinton National Historic Landmark, the Singer Sewing Machine Tower, and the Polo Grounds. Moving on towards Brooklyn, he will cover the lines that crossed the Brooklyn Bridge and passed the historic Green-Wood Cemetery, the Brighton Beach Hotel, and Coney Island. In Queens, the Els went to the Rockaway Beaches, the controversial abandoned lines that may become another “High Line-Style” linear park, Flushing Meadow Park (site of the 1939 and 1963 World’s Fairs), and the Kennedy Airport. Lastly, he ends in the Bronx following the Els that go to Yankee Stadium, the Bronx Zoo, Grand Concourse, the Van Cortlandt Mansion and Park, and Wave Hill Mansion and Gardens.
Oscar Israelowitz has degrees in Geology and Architecture, has exhibited photographic shows at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Historical Society, the New York Transit Museum, and the Main Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. He is also a licensed New York City Tour Guide.
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