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Re: Lower Level platform 42nd & 8th Ave.

Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Aug 14 17:11:01 2019, in response to Re: Lower Level platform 42nd & 8th Ave., posted by Mitch45 on Wed Aug 14 17:04:46 2019.

That John Hylan was personally responsible, and pretty much everything relating to Hylan in your post other than your restating of the famous legend (which I think is true, although maybe the details are embellished) and that he spearheaded the formation of the IND.

There is no evidence that Hylan was personally involved in the engineering of the 8th Avenue line. Nor is it a certainty that the station was purposely built to block the IRT, although it could have been.

According to nycsubway.org, Hylan's personal proposal called for a 3 track subway in the area! And a first avenue subway. It's likely that the professionals took over after that.

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