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Re: The Liberty Avenue Elevated Is 100 Today! |
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Posted by randyo on Wed Sep 30 14:48:30 2015, in response to Re: The Liberty Avenue Elevated Is 100 Today!, posted by Elkeeper on Tue Sep 29 16:56:11 2015. Documentation I have seen indicates that the entire subway infrastructure S/O Rocky Av was completed as far as Euclid (dare I say 76 St?) prior to the start of WWII with the exception of the station tile work, track and signals. The color of the tiles at Grant really have nothing to do with the planning since the actual construction of the station was done post WWII and the tile work was state of the art for subway construction at the time as was the case with the tile work between ENY and Euclid. Unlike the tie work N/O ENY, which was pure white, the tile work S/O ENY is a slight off white like much of the post war station work in the IND like 179 St and 42/8 Lower. The original design for the tile work S/O ENY was to have been the pure IND white had it been completed prior to WWII which it was not. By the time of the actual station finishing new standards for subway tile work were in place and thus were utilized. Among the variations of plans for the extension of the IND Fulton line was to have the line extended under Liberty Ave and like the plan you mentioned connected to the BMT Fulton structure at Grant which probably would have meant a replacement of the existing elevated station at Grant rather than a complete elimination. |
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