The city has a stylish new promenade, the High Line, a former elevated railroad in the West Village.
Chicago's "L", the elevated railroad that rattles like some gigantic model train set around the heart of the windy city.
A It was one of a series of astonishingly artistic stations for the Sixth Avenue elevated railroad designed by the Hudson River School painter Jasper Cropsey.
Until the Eighth Avenue elevated railroad reached 145th Street in 1879, the area was mostly rural, a country-home favorite because of its cool breezes.
One day the High Line, the abandoned elevated railroad viaduct that snakes through the two districts, may be converted into a pedestrian mall.
Ninth Avenue clanged with the city's first elevated railroad, and at-grade locomotives barreled lethally down "Death Avenue," otherwise known as 11th.
His loft, across the street from the elevated railroad tracks separating the downtown from the Ironbound, is undeniably authentic: stiflingly hot, paint-splattered, strewn with art-making debris.
As the music goes on, the car pulls up in the shadow of the elevated railroad, and a cop takes out a syringe.
In 1944, the elevated railroad trains that ran along the interior of the bridge ceased operation, and soon afterward, the trolley lines ended service.
On Wednesday, Mr. Kostka, a respiratory therapist, walked along elevated railroad tracks on his way to buy dog food and cigarettes.
