NYC’s first elevated train and the world’s first streetcar began in Greenwich Village

Dec 14, 2017 |

A streetcar at Madison and 4th Avenue in 1890. Via MCNY. Greenwich Village is known as the birthplace of many things – the modern gay rights movement, Off-Broadway theater, the New York School of artists and poets, the “new urbanism” pioneered by Jane Jacobs, among many other trailblazing firsts. Less closely associated with the Village, however, […more]

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