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Posted by William A. Padron on Sat Oct 3 13:20:41 2015, in response to Re: The Liberty Avenue Elevated Is 100 Today!, posted by randyo on Wed Sep 30 14:48:30 2015. Looking at a 1940 Hagstrom map issued, it showed the IND Fulton Street Line extended with the new stations along the line with a tag saying "Open 1943" at these locations after Rockaway Avenue: Liberty Avenue, Van Siclen Avenue, Shepherd Avenue, Euclid Avenue, 75th Street [76th], 85th Street [84th], Cross Bay Boulevard and 106th Street [105th]. It did not show a station at what would eventually be at Broadway-East New York.Yes, I seem to recall during the 1970's that the Transit Museum had posted on display diagram drawings dated from the year 1945 of the tile work that was to be set along those local stations under Pitkin Avenue that eventually opened after WWII. They look liked in the standard IND square tile format, but with the two-tone blue color band. The revised rectangular tiling was seen as early of 1947 from a photo taken at Liberty Avenue as posted on the Museum of New York's website. As for Grant Avenue, yes, the BoT and later NYCTA had perhaps the plans eventually redrawn, and would not have probably then not be in a position at the time to just strengthen and rebuild the older BRT/BMT elevated station and structure that would had to accommodate the heavier-built IND trains, plus constructing a much tighter curve going up there. The ramp west of 75th Street and the replacement station built (the last new one in Brooklyn to date) eventually built was perhaps a much better, smoother fit to go along with the 1914-15 built structure. -William A. Padron ["Grant"] |
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