3rd Ave. El - 1950’s

What is a 3rd Ave. El? It’s the elevated train that used to run up and down Manhattan until the mid-1950’s, when it was decommissioned and turned into scrap metal. Despite this, you can still experience the trip through New York City that vanished over half-a-century ago, not only from the overhead view of the train window, but through the actual neighborhoods and with the authentic people who road it daily. A beatnik photographer with a tripod, a stumbling drunk from the old Bowery, a giddy little g