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Posted by Marc A. Rivlin on Sun Aug 25 22:50:14 2013, in response to Re: Essex- After the IND, posted by jabrams on Sun Aug 25 17:05:19 2013. On the 1929 E. Belcher Hyde insurance maps for Brooklyn, the Smith Street/Prospect Park Brooklyn IND is marked on the streets as "New Subway to be Constructed" with the Seventh Avenue station listed as "New Local Subway Station" and the Fourth Avenue station described as "New Express Subway Station." Both are at their current locations (ie: Fourth Avenue shows "city subway property" where the portal was built, so this wasn't drawn before it was decided to put the line on a viaduct rather than tunneling under the canal).These could just be errors. Or, perhaps the BoT decided that it was too difficult to engineer and/or expensive to build an express station just beyond the portal. I've never seen a 1920s IND/BoT planning map with stations, just route maps, and the Times articles I've read from the 20s and 30s only mention some stations, so I know of no way to confirm or refute the labels on these maps. |
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