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1Scape No.5 - Waiting for the Downtown Local

1Scape No.5 - Waiting for the Downtown Local

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1Scape No.5 - Waiting for the Downtown Local

The 125th Street Station for the (IRT) 1 Train of the New York City Subway system sits high
above Broadway, at the western edge of Harlem, on the impressive Manhattan Valley Viaduct, (*)
spanning the stretch from 122nd to 135th Streets.

His Broadway-7th Ave Local will plunge underground in a few blocks and
stay there, all the way to South Ferry at the lower tip of Manhattan.

But in the opposite direction, north of here, the line is remarkable for how it follows the rugged topography of
northern Manhattan, alternating between being "back underground" relative to neighborhoods on high ground
and blasting out of the rockface under Fort George at Dyckman Street (**) to run once again high above the street grid
on its way to Van Cortlandt Park-242nd Street in the Bronx.

Taken on a (pre-pandemic) December afternoon.

©2021 Steve Ember

"1Scapes" is devoted to the trains and stations of the 1 Train. You may read about it here:
https://medium.com/@emberphoto/a-big-white-1-inside-a-bright-red-tomato-f229dff3d685
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1Scape No.3 - W 125th Street, Harlem
1Scape No.3 - W 125th Street, Harlem
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