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Posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG on Fri Mar 11 01:05:03 2016, in response to Re: What is this supposed to be?, posted by 3-9 on Fri Mar 11 00:08:32 2016. Hello again 3-9 When a few years ago the new City Park and Greenway were developed along the Bronx River (both sides of the River) and from around the E.172nd Street Roadway Overpass north to about E.174th street area, it was suggested, and implemented, that the steel SIGNAL BRIDGE shown in my attached Feb 1964 photo - would be overhauled and restored as a static monument to the former NYW&B Railway and its R-o-W under the signal gantry as part of the greenway. You can see that Signal gantry Bridge in my photo BELOW  You can GOOGLE area views of this present area -- and see much of it from the street views. I think I saw a website with photos about and taken in this new park. I doubt there is any plaque or anything else (signs, photo mural, etc) about the NYW&B RR. But the Gantry bridge was saved. The former NYW&B RR R-o-W ground north to Lebanon street was all re-developed (most of it) with new buildings, parking lots, etc. Very little original ground remains -- I seem to recall in recent times, a small part of one block of R-o-W where the steel 4 track trestle once ran above - now with solely it concrete "column footings" all that remained in a few rows on the ground. The earthen embankment from the Trestle end (around E 177th St) south to E. 172nd Street (at AMTRAK R-o-W) was totally excavated and all that fill removed to provide flat ground for redevelopment. This went on in the period between 2006-2008. Joe F |
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