Taking a ride on the IRT, 1905

This clip starts at 14th Street-Union Square and ends at 42nd. At the time it was filmed, the subway system was only 7 months old.

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6 Responses to “Taking a ride on the IRT, 1905”

The beautiful subway station you’ll never see « Ephemeral New York Says:
March 21, 2009 at 4:35 am | Reply
[…] Read more about it and its architectural beauty here. Or hop on board for its maiden voyage by watching this circa-1905 film clip. […]
Green daisy Says:
November 27, 2011 at 5:03 am | Reply
I loved watching this clip…fascinating!
Mary Hernandez Says:
January 6, 2017 at 8:11 am | Reply
Absolutely beautiful clip!! Love the way they dressed and you wonder how life was back then!!
Rushing by the relics of the Union Square subway | Ephemeral New York Says:
March 26, 2018 at 6:38 am | Reply
[…] are the remnants of the original walls of the 1904 IRT station. Long thought to have been lost to the ages, they were unearthed during a 1997 renovation and then […]
Rushing by the relics of the Union Square subway ⋆ New York city blog Says:
March 26, 2018 at 6:53 am | Reply
[…] are the remnants of the original walls of the 1904 IRT station. Long thought to have been lost to the ages, they were unearthed during a 1997 renovation and then […]
Rushing by the relics of the Union Square subway | News for New Yorkers Says:
March 26, 2018 at 9:54 am | Reply
[…] are the remnants of the original walls of the 1904 IRT station. Long thought to have been lost to the ages, they were unearthed during a 1997 renovation and then […]