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Re: Essex- After the IND Phase 2 Maps |
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Posted by randyo on Mon Aug 26 14:23:43 2013, in response to Re: Essex- After the IND Phase 2 Maps, posted by Avid Reader on Mon Aug 26 07:55:10 2013. For those of you who question the original route of the IND Fulton St Line S/O Euclid through 76 St, you will note according to the 1939 map that as I mentioned in several posts, the existing connection to the BMT Fulton el and the continuation of the subway down Pitkin Av were supposed to coexist rather than the connection to the el replacing the subway extension. The original 1929 plans called for the Fulton St subway to swing under Liberty Av rather than duplicate the Fulton St el under Pitkin as it did. The connection to the east end of the Fulton St el would have been made along Liberty Av via a portal on that street rather than the present portal under private property although, I would imagine that some houses along Liberty would have had to be demolished to allow the avenue to be widened for the portal similarly to what was done along McDonald Av between Church and Ditmas for the IND Culver connection. I have made mention of that variation in several posts on the IND to Fulton el connection and suspect that that is the reason the IND only initially went as far as Rockaway Av. Had the subway been routed down Liberty, the track configuration along Fulton St in the Bway Jct area would probably have had to be different so construction past Rockaway Av was probably not started until the final routing had been determined. |
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