Old New York yesterday & today . Charles T. Harvey, President of the first Elevated Railroad, the West Side & Yonkers Patented R. R. (now Ninth Avenue), demonstrating that a car would not fall off the track, 1868. Mr. Gerehardt, third from the right, is still actively employed in the Interborough Company. Yonkers men are entitled to the credit of the first attempt at rapid transit in New Collfcllon of Mr. C-orse J. ^arly iDaus in i\\t ^.\prrss ^Utstness, 1S50 Officers and directors of the American Express Company at the corner of West Broadway and Reade Street, on one of the
Old New York yesterday & today . Charles T. Harvey, President of the first Elevated Railroad, the West Side & Yonkers Patented R. R. (now Ninth Avenue), demonstrating that a car would not fall off the track, 1868. Mr. Gerehardt, third from the right, is still actively employed in the Interborough Company. Yonkers men are entitled to the credit of the first attempt at rapid transit in New Collfcllon of Mr. C-orse J. ^arly iDaus in i\\t ^.\prrss ^Utstness, 1S50 Officers and directors of the American Express Company at the corner of West Broadway and Reade Street, on one of their red and green wagons, on the way to the dedication of their new Hudson Street Building, shown in the background. About 1853. Each face was a portrait taken for this occasion and deftly inserted in the drawing—apparently a popular custom in those days. (See also Seventh Regiment picture, IVashinglon Square)
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