Happy 113th Birthday To Our Miraculously Still Sorta Functioning Subway System
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Interborough Subway Car, Side View, early 1900s (via the NYPL)<br/>
Portrait of New York City Hall and subway entrance, 1905. (Getty)<br/>
A group of suffragettes enter the New York subway to catch the 'penny tube' to Wall Street, 1915. (Getty)<br/>
Mayor Seth Low holds a mallet, surrounded by a crowd of police, officials, and citizens at a dedication ceremony for a New York City subway station, probably the City Hall station, New York City, circa 1903. (Getty)<br/>
Commuters walk on the street after leaving a subway station, New York, 1910s. (Getty)<br/>
A man in hat and coat gets off of a subway car the interior of which is plastered with advertising posters for department stores, New York, 1910s. (Getty)<br/>
View of construction scaffolding inside a newly excavated subway tunnel, New York City, circa 1900. (Getty)<br/>
Subway Construction, New York City, early 1900s. (via the NYPL)