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Posted by Elkeeper on Mon Nov 24 14:01:25 2014, in response to Re: 76st., posted by renee gil on Sun Nov 23 23:48:19 2014. As originally designed, Nostrand/Fulton was to have been a local station with 2 side platforms. All 4 tracks would have been at the current local level of 54 feet below Fulton Street- fairly deep. In the late 1920's Brooklyn master planners envisioned a second business area, called the Central Business District. A new Fulton Street with a new subway, minus its elevated and trolley lines, similar to the plans for 6th Ave in Manhattan. Its epicenter was to have been at Fulton/Nostrand. They were buoyed when the Brevoort Savings Bank razed the old Fulton Theater in 1930, to build its main branch on Fulton St, just west of Nostrand Ave (north side). Nostrand Ave station was then redesigned in 1929/1930 to its present design and built as such. However, the foundations for the original station were built between October,1929 -January,1932, for this part of the IND subway construction. That segement was between St Felix St and Nostrand Ave. The original station was never built, just changed over the foundation. |
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