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Re: Lower Level platform 42nd & 8th Ave. |
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Posted by SLRT on Thu Aug 15 09:56:35 2019, in response to Re: Lower Level platform 42nd & 8th Ave., posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Aug 14 20:14:20 2019. Hylan did hold a grudge against the BRT. He was a locomotive engineer on a Ridgewood train coming from the BERR terminal beside the Brooklyn Bridge. He took the curve at Navy Street onto the Myrtle. A superintendent was opening the door of the tower just as Hylan rounded the (sharp) curve and was knocked down. When Hylan arrived at Ridgewood he was summarily fired.Most of this detail comes from Hylan's [ghosted] autobiography. He talked about it because the firing was brought up in the press after the Malbone Street wreck, when Hylan used his position of Mayor to sit as magistrate to pillory the BRT. In the book he jokes that the super was an old man and too slow to avoid the train, and that it was really the "victim's" fault. As to the law book, that's apparently a myth. He was on his way to passing the bar at the time, so that undoubtedly cushioned the blow of his firing, because he soon began work as an attorney |
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