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Re: The Connection Between WTC and Cortlandt St |
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Posted by Gene B. on Tue Mar 13 13:19:14 2012, in response to Re: The Connection Between WTC and Cortlandt St, posted by randyo on Mon Mar 12 21:27:16 2012. Remember, we are looking with 20-20 hindsight. They also had plans for the 2nd Ave subway and for the IRT and IND extensions to Sheepshead Bay, among other things. I think they could have used Ashland Place to connect with the subway for either Nassau St. loop or midtown Manhattan and a stub portion of the el for service into downtown Brooklyn. With our hindsight, we know that downtown Brooklyn lost a lot of retail patrons once the subway made it easy to get to the stores between 8th ST. and 59th St. Manhattan, and Borough Hall had less importance than when it was the City Hall for the City of Brooklyn, even though it still had courts and other governmental branch operations. Oh well. |
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