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Posted by MainR3664 on Sun Jan 11 17:37:07 2015, in response to Re: Penn Station, posted by 3-9 on Sun Jan 11 16:49:47 2015. Well, I was referring also to the area between 9th and 10th Avenues, where the tracks out of NYP always passed. Sometime in the 1970s (I think) they built the funny, angle-sided building with the ice skating rink over the tracks in that area.As for the really far west side, I think the old freight yards that later became the LIRR yards, not only do old aerial photos show them as being below street level, I can actually remember as a child (c. 1979-80) when we drove in that area that we were on overpasses, though I didn't know over what... In June 2013, I went over there, and the old concrete bridges are still in place (in the West 30s) where there as no need to disturb or rebuild them. The whole street pattern in that area has bridged over the tracks for a long time. I'd guess as part of the "West Side Improvement" project that gave us the High Line. Again, with imagination, the area could have been decked in the 1960s, putting the air rights to use, rebuilding MSG- and saving Penn Station. As far as all the freight activity that was still going on in the 1960s around there- it was already the Port Authority's master plan (including the WTC) to move everything to NJ. I read that in a book about 4 years ago- I forget the name of it. |
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