SUBWAY DIGGING – GRAND ARMY PLAZA (1914)
“Dirt is beginning to fly with telling effect in the excavations for the extension of the subway through Flatbush Avenue and out Eastern parkway,” noted the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in their 30 August 1914 edition. “The Above picture shows the big steam shovel at work close to the sailors and soldiers Monument at the Plaza of Prospect Park. Which is seen in the background. This excavation of the present subway will be constructed faster than the Fourth Avenue line has been because there are neither troubles about obtaining title to abutting lands nor the physical difficulties which reset the Fulton Street section of the Fourth Avenue line.”
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