A New Subway Company Opens the 8th Avenue Subway Line on September 11th, 1932

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Eight Avenue subway station opens. Young boy, stretched out on the top of this turnstile at 42nd Street, has a real good reason for wanting to be first. His name is William Reilly and he was born on March 14, 1925, the day ground was broken for the Eighth Avenue Subway.

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