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Re: 1907: Interior of the Brooklyn Bridge el station, from the Municipal Archives. |
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Posted by Elkeeper on Sun Jun 17 17:28:12 2012, in response to Re: 1907: Interior of the Brooklyn Bridge el station, from the Municipal Archives., posted by (4) Lexington Av Exp on Sun Jun 17 14:20:44 2012. Park Row was built- and torn down- in sections. On March 31st, 1935, the rear extension and the 2 tracks on the north platform were closed and removed later that year. The demolition was part of the City's plan to improve the Park Row area around City Hall. Also, ridership on the older Brooklyn els had declined, as people chose to take the subways to Manhattan. So, Park Row service continued with just the Lexington and Fulton els running to the 2 south platform tracks of the terminal. As previously mentioned here, Fulton and 5th Ave el service ended on 6/01/40, leaving just the Myrtle and Lexington lines to cross the bridge. During the war, in 1943, the City wanted to stop service and cut Myrtle/lex service back. But, wartime federal bureaucracy delayed the closing until March 5th, 1944. The remaining Park Row structure was demolished in the summer of 1944, along with Sands Street and Adams Street in brooklyn. |
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