This month in real estate history

A look back at some of New York City's biggest real estate stories

10th Avenue in the early ’50s
10th Avenue in the early ’50s

From the October issue: Government officials announced 61 years ago this month that more than 900 families would be displaced from Manhattan’s West Side to make way for the Lincoln Tunnel’s third tube.

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The Port of New York Authority — today called the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey — said it would purchase about 90 buildings that housed thousands of low-and middle-income residents and commercial tenants to make way for entrances and exits for the new $90 million tube. The buildings were between Ninth and 10th avenues and 30th and 41st streets. The demolition began in 1953. [more]