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  1. History. Second Avenue facing north from 42nd Street in 1861. Downtown Second Avenue in the Lower East Side was the home to many Yiddish theatre productions during the early part of the 20th century, and Second Avenue came to be known as the "Yiddish Theater District", "Yiddish Broadway", or the "Jewish Rialto".

  2. Summarize this article for a 10 year old. SHOW ALL QUESTIONS. Second Avenue is located on the East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan extending from Houston Street at its south end to the Harlem River Drive at 128th Street at its north end.

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  4. Jan 1, 2017 · Jan. 1, 2017. See how this article appeared when it was originally published on NYTimes.com. • After taking nearly a century to build, the Second Avenue subway extension in Manhattan opened...

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  5. The Second Avenue Subway, a New York City Subway line that runs under Second Avenue on the East Side of Manhattan, has been proposed since 1920. The first phase of the line, consisting of three stations on the Upper East Side , started construction in 2007 and opened in 2017, ninety-seven years after the route was first proposed.

  6. Apr 13, 2007 · 2nd Ave. Subway History. The following timeline is from the MTA. It details the history of the ill-fated Second Ave. subway line. Early History. 1920 Daniel L. Turner of the Public Service Commission published the “Proposed Comprehensive Rapid Transit System,” which included six new north-south lines and eight new crosstown lines in Manhattan.

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