Main St. where Main St. and Lexington Ave. intersect was lowered as part of the urban renewal of downtown White Plains which began in the 1960s. It was lowered 12 feet for geometrical purposes - cars commuting in under the railroad tracks faced a steep hill and so the road was lowered to accommodate commuters. The project was complex as hardwire telephone cables had to be lowered also.
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Local Subjects
Engineering
Construction equipment
Construction workers
City planning
Nineteen seventies
Nineteen seventies
White Plains (N.Y.)
black-and-white photographs
Note
Digitized by the Metropolitan New York Library Council as part of the Culture In Transit project, funded by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
This item was scanned as part of a community scanning day at White Plains Public Library held on December 12, 2015. Donated by Ed Steinberg.