Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway in China Town
Month: June 2017
Manhattan’s famed Third Avenue El, during its last days of service, is seen from the north end of the Canal Street platform. A southbound local is approaching on the left as a northbound local heads toward Grand Street, its next stop, on the right. Photo by George Abere Jr on May 10, 1955 from the collection of Newkirk Images LLC and this year’s NYC subway calendar.
Entrance to the Smith Street subway station in Brooklyn, sometime in the late 1980s.
The “8th Avenue” on the sign doesn’t refer to the station, but to the subway line. The stop was in the former Independent Subway System (IND), and “8th Avenue” corresponded to the Manhattan avenue the line traveled beneath, nomenclature dating back to IND’s 1932 debut.
My photo–I think I was experimenting with high speed film and may have even lugged my tripod along.
Noir By Night 