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Why NY's Lost West Side Elevated Highway Collapsed
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Chapters:
00:00 - The West Side Elevated Highway
00:48 - How Street Level Railways menaced NYC
01:48 - Proposals to alleviate NYC of it’s street-level railways
02:44 - Julius Miller’s controversial plan for the West Side Elevated Highway
05:53 - When NYC approved the West Side Elevated Highway
10:09 - How the West Side Elevated Highway devastated NY’s city markets
11:21 - Why New Yorkers opposed the West Side Elevated Highway
11:39 - How poor maintenance led to the collapse of New York’s West Side elevated highway
15:38 - Demolition of New York’s West Side Elevated Highway
18:04 - New York’s West Side Highway in Modern History
19:25 - What’s Left of New York’s West Side Elevated Highway?
IT’S HISTORY - Weekly Tales of American Urban Decay as presented by your host Ryan Socash.
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Editor - Karolina Szwata,
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