[Illustration: THREE PIPES SUBSTITUTED FOR LARGE BRICK SEWER AT 110TH
STREET AND LENOX AVENUE]
[Illustration: SEWER SIPHON AT 149TH STREET AND RAILROAD AVENUE]
[Illustration: CONCRETE SEWER BACK OF ELECTRIC DUCT MANHOLE--BROADWAY
AND 58TH STREET]
At 134th Street and Broadway a two-track structure of the steel beam
type about 200 feet long was completed. Approaching it from the south,
leading from Manhattan Valley Viaduct, was an open cut with retaining
walls 300 feet long and from 3 to 13 feet in height. After all this
work was finished (and it happened to be the first finished on the
subway), it was decided to widen the road to three tracks, and a
unique piece of work was successfully accomplished. The retaining
walls were moved bodily on slides, by means of jacks, to a line 6-1/4
feet on each side, widening the roadbed 12-1/2 feet, without a break
in either wall. The method of widening the steel-beam typical subway
portion was equally novel. The west wall was moved bodily by jacks
the necessary distance to bring it in line with the new position of
the west retaining wall. The remainder of the structure was then moved
bodily, also by jacks, 6-1/4 feet to the east. The new roof of the
usual type was then added over 12-1/2 feet of additional opening. (See
photographs on pages 46 and 47.)
[Illustration: CONCRETE SEWER BACK OF SIDE WALL, BROADWAY AND 56TH
STREET]
[Illustration: LARGE GAS AND WATER PIPES, RELAID BEHIND EACH SIDE WALL
ON ELM STREET]
Provision had to be made, not only for buildings along the route that
towered far above the street surface, but also for some which
burrowed far below the subway.
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