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Re: S. Phoenix residents say ''Four Lanes or No Train'' (Central Avenue corridor) |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Wed Sep 26 13:32:49 2018, in response to Re: S. Phoenix residents say ''Four Lanes or No Train'' (Central Avenue corridor), posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Tue Sep 25 21:45:53 2018. "It's like if NYC's Hudson Yards development required the closing of Hudson Yards."Thats a bit of a stretch. The last freight car delivered to the west side RR yards was in or about 1984. It was a NY Times consigned carload of newsprint from Canada to the 60th St team tracks. Penn Central & Conrail successfully chased all freight business away from Manhattan. The yards were never "closed" per-se, they were more/less abandoned awaiting for serious $$$ offers. The condemnation of the DV bridge at that time was a big help to encourage "closing". For years, it was kept in the open position. Penn Central reality was the holding Co. who owned the land & saw more profit in marketing the land to developers v/s keeping it as a railyard. The land indeed seemed abandoned until the Hudson Yds development situation was formed. That was a good 10-15 yrs after the last freight car was emptied. |
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