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Posted by Joe on Sun Jun 11 19:45:27 2017, in response to Re: GW Bridge buses in early years, posted by randyo on Sun Jun 11 17:44:57 2017. There is a chance that you saw the construction of the 179th Street tunnel.Wikipedia: After the end of World War II, New York public works baron Robert Moses started work on a bypass in Manhattan of the Washington Heights area to serve the George Washington Bridge. Originally, only the 178th Street Tunnel existed, being constructed in 1940 and serving both directions. Construction began on the 179th Street Tunnel in March 1949 and was completed over two years later. At that time, the 178th Street Tunnel was reconfigured to serve eastbound traffic only, while the 179th served the westbound. --- Of course, Wikipedia can be wrong. I drove through an eastbound tube about 1959 or 1960 just to explore it.Because I knew upper Manhattan pretty well, I was not taken aback when it put me on West 175 Street, where my parents had lived about 1935. --- Thanks for your comments, always informative. |
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