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Re: Original IND/Sixth Avenue Subway questions |
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Posted by Michael549 on Fri Jan 30 17:27:27 2015, in response to Original IND/Sixth Avenue Subway questions, posted by Union Tpke on Fri Jan 30 15:48:14 2015. Just a couple of notes:1) The time listings on when a station "opens" and when it was "built" can be two very different things. (For a recent example, the Archer Avenue subway and stations lines were completed a few years before they opened to the public. Similarly, A-train service to Euclid Avenue opened much later than when the tunnels and stations were built.) 2) One could easily imagine a situation where at Seventh Avenue all train service is on one track on each level, and there are just signs above the platforms to that effect, while the remainder of the subway line is built. 3) Remember that the Court Square complex were three originally separate stations (with separate fare controls, entrances, etc.) that in the circa 1990's were made to work together. The building of the Citi-Corp. building at that site helped connect these separate stations, in a similar to the 51st-Lexington Avenue and 53rd Street-Lexington Avenue stations. This change was necessary due to the changes with the G-train. If the G-train was not changed it is doubtful that all of the improvements would have resulted. 4) The 23 St-Ely (Find Court Square-23 St) was built as the same time as the rest of the IND Queens Blvd segments, however the tile-work of the station was not completed until later. After the tile-work was completed the station was opened. Before then the station was simply dark and express trains simply ran past the station. Today on the #1 line trains daily run past the 91st Street station, same as the Worth Street station on the #6, or the Myrtle Avenue station just north of the DeKalb Avenue station. Mike |
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