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Posted by randyo on Mon Sep 7 14:19:03 2015, in response to Re: Warning! This Post is About 76th Street, posted by zac on Sun Sep 6 21:33:09 2015. If you had been following some of my posts on the topic. you might have seen several items about the area that it takes a bit of research to discover. Until the IND subway came into the area, Pitkin Av ended at the city line and its current path was blocked by private property. The Current path of Pitkin Av east of 79 St is actually the continuation of another street called South Rd which explains why the current path of Pitkin Av angles slightly south at the point. From City Line to 79 St Pitkin Av was through routed to meet with the routing of South and make a continuos thoroughfare much the same way that 6 Av in Manhattan was through routes between W 3 St and Canal when that portion of the IND was built. At the time of the construction of the subway through that area there were no homes for people to be forced out of. Unfortunately, while checking the NYC archives for aerial photos of the area, there seems to be a gap between 1930 when the street did not go through and 1950 when it did, so I was unable to find the exact date of the through routing. In any case it does seem that Pitkin Av was through routed with South Road for the specific purpose of providing a through street for the subway to pass under. |
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