The Ninth Avenue Elevated: New York, 1929

Before New Yorkers rode the subways, they rode the elevateds. Built in the nineteenth century, demolished in the mid-twentieth, they were one of the things that made New York, New York. Fox Movietone’s newsreel cameramen visited several locations on the Ninth Avenue El in 1929 and brought back this footage. We get glimpses of Yankee Stadium and The Polo Grounds, as well as an extended look at the S-curve at 110th Street, the famous and oft-photographed “Suicide Curve.“ We also see plenty of the trains t