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Re: 76th St area - Satellite (Re: Q About LTV Squad and 76th Street) |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Jan 25 20:30:57 2011, in response to Re: 76th St area - Satellite (Re: Q About LTV Squad and 76th Street), posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jan 25 11:53:19 2011. I think it was done in the zig zag portion in Ridgewood/Bushwick some time around the turn of the 1900's. Could have even been the 1910's. It used to be a straight line from Newtown Creek straight through to the Cemetery of the Evergreens. When Ridgewood was being developed, there were buildings where you would cook in your kitchen in Brooklyn, but go to sleep in your bedroom in Queens. They then changed it to the zig zag pattern through there that survives to today.Oddly, even the parts of Ridgewood DEEP (a few blocks) into QUeens (and always in Queens continued to be served from the Brooklyn post office. That has to be why most of Ridgewood retained it's street names, even though in Queens. Oddly, some of Ridgewood did go into the QUeens system though too. On one side of the M train el, all the streets retain their Brooklyn names, on the other side of the M train el, they were changed (for the most part) into Queens numbered St's. Then to make it even stranger, one side of Forest Ave is in the Brooklyn numbering sequence (18-XX Woodbine St) for example, but then when it crosses Forest Ave, it jumps to 60-XX Woodbine St) for all those streets. VERY odd. |
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