Flashback Friday: Construction of the “El” Train Along Fulton Street Up Hanson Place, 1940

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Photo by P. L. Sperr. (Image via New York Public Library digital collection.)

Before BAM, before the hub of transit that we have now at Fort Greene Place and Hanson Place, we had this: the BMT “El” line being built on Fulton Street, as well as the YMCA Building.

Circa May 17, 1940.