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23rd Street is a broad thoroughfare in the New York City borough of Manhattan ... It is one of few two-way streets in the gridiron of the borough ... As with Manhattan's other "crosstown" streets, it is divided at Fifth Avenue, in this case at Madison Square Park, into its east and west sections ...
... The first station at Wells Street was built by the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, the first railroad in Chicago ... of the Chicago River, near the corner of Canal and Kinzie Streets ... In 1851 the railroad began to purchase the land needed to build a new station to the east of the river, and construction of this station at Wells Street ...
... Uxbridge tube station is the western terminus for the Metropolitan and Piccadilly lines of the London Underground ... The station, built in 1933, is fronted by a pedestrian high street and is connected to a bus terminus with connections to Hillingdon, Hayes, Ealing, Ruislip, and ... There were once two overground railway stations - Uxbridge Vine Street (originally just Uxbridge Station) and Uxbridge High Street ...
... centerpiece of the city is an ensemble of buildings along Lyubinsky Avenue/Lenina Street, anchored by the former Gostiny Dvor, and flanked by two ... Another area of interest is Nikolsky Avenue/Krasnykh Zor Street, where a line of merchants' wooden houses still stands ... The street leads to the Neoclassical cathedral of St ...
... planned for two bridges side-by-side that could carry four railroad tracks into the Wells Street Station ... was already underway that led to the closure of Wells Street Station and its replacement with a new terminal on the west bank of the river ... When the new station (now the Ogilvie Transportation Center) opened in 1911, Kinzie Street railroad bridge was left to handle freight traffic only ...
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