Street Peddlers Size:11" x 14" but one final trolley line

but one final trolley line remained in service until 1957 on Roosevelt Island (formerly Welfare Island)

George Harrison

published September 28

Commuters traveled to and from their workplaces in Lower Manhattan on the steam-powered Third Avenue Elevated line

Special guests joined the road trips

Street Peddlers Size:11" x 14" but one final trolley lineAt the turn of the century, the Lower East Side was the first stop in America for European immigrants struggling to start a new life. The tenement lined streets, rather than being paved with gold, were filled with peddlers, noise, dirt and poverty, as evident in this circa 1915 photograph. Immigrants lived in the miserable conditions cramped, decrepit tenement apartments with little space, ventilation, or light, and no heat or plumbing. As an escape,