After reading more about it I believe those are telephone lines overhead not electricity lines
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1880?
Longjumping_Spread53 on
New York City received its first telephones in the late 1870s, with early, limited usage beginning around 1877–1878, shortly after Alexander Graham Bell’s invention. The first telephone exchange in NYC followed shortly after, leading to rapid adoption by the 1880s as a crucial business tool
1877–1878: Early telephones were introduced for private, “point-to-point” use, with the first commercial phone directory listing only 50 names in February 1878.
Telephone usage grew rapidly, with poles and wires covering Manhattan by 1885
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After reading more about it I believe those are telephone lines overhead not electricity lines
1880?
New York City received its first telephones in the late 1870s, with early, limited usage beginning around 1877–1878, shortly after Alexander Graham Bell’s invention. The first telephone exchange in NYC followed shortly after, leading to rapid adoption by the 1880s as a crucial business tool
1877–1878: Early telephones were introduced for private, “point-to-point” use, with the first commercial phone directory listing only 50 names in February 1878.
Telephone usage grew rapidly, with poles and wires covering Manhattan by 1885
Source NYC.GOV