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Posted by Elkeeper on Sun Jul 31 22:02:59 2016, in response to Re: Shuttle of New York City, posted by tunnelrat on Sun Jul 31 21:03:53 2016. Long answer: The only reason that the BRT kept and third railed the Hudson Ave trackage was the hope that they would someday be allowed to build their own bridge over the East River. They even received a charter from NY State to build the rail bridge in 1892, but opposition, mainly from the Manhattan side of the river, forced the BRT to give it up in 1896. The real slap in the face came when the state authorized the Williamsburgh Bridge charter, later that year. After NYC was incorporated in 1898, the BRT and the new NYC Dept of Bridges could not settle on a rental use for the el trains. (Remember, the bridge opened in 1903, but the BRT only started running its trains in 1908.) But, by 1904, the BRT realized it was useless to run a single gate car pushed/pulled by a single locomotive on the Hudson Ave spur, just to preserve the franchise- with no hope for a bridge. The Willy B had opened, talks with the City resumed, so the spur was closed on April 10th, 1904. The BRT bridge dream was dead. |
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