Living on the Grid
“Cut and Cover” Subway Construction
Image 5
Wurts Bros., Broadway between 95th and 96th Streets Subway construction, 1904. Gelatin silver print on printing-out paper
Museum of the City of New York, Prints and Photographs Collection, X2010.11.1001
This 1904 photograph documents the cut-and-cover construction of the first subway line, along Broadway at the 96th Street stop. KA