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Re: IND Pitkin Avenue Extension - map |
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Posted by randyo on Wed Jun 20 15:06:22 2012, in response to Re: IND Pitkin Avenue Extension - map, posted by SLRT on Tue Jun 19 06:06:33 2012. I have checked certain street maps from the 1930s and 40s some of which are hard to find and is seems that Pitkin Av did not extend past Ruby St which is the approximate location of the legendary 76 St station. Although I am connecting some dots that really don't exist, I surmise that Pitkin Av was through routed with South Road sometime around the early 1940s when the IND was being built through the area. This is much the same thing that was done in Manhattan when 6 Av was through routed between W3 St and Canal St as part of the iND subway construction in that area. It is likely that the Fulton El jogged at that point due to the fact that it couldn't continue too far past that point along Pitkin anyhow coupled with the probable lack of residential development in the area at the time the original el was built. |
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