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First train to Brooklyn

August Belmont and Theodore P. Shonts, president of the IRT, hosted the very first train to Brooklyn via the Battery-Joralemon Street tunnel under the East River. Doesn’t it look like the man in blue on the right is holding a dog?

First train to Brooklyn via East River tunnel

Joralemon Tunnel
BrooklySubway

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