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Re: The reason NYC stopped building subways |
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Posted by gbs on Fri Feb 7 23:56:47 2020, in response to Re: The reason NYC stopped building subways, posted by randyo on Fri Feb 7 18:53:27 2020. Where the four F/G tracks descend and go underground from Smith-9 to Carroll St, the portal is not over Smith St but along side, over the residential block, and many buildings had to be removed for that. I imagine something similar happened in Park Slope where the same tracks descend and go underground from Fourth to Seventh Avs, not over 9 St or 10 St but in between the blocks. The same happened with the Culver tracks descending into MacDonald Av. The portal is alongside the street, not over it, and buildings had to be removed. (Where the New York-bound tube of the Holland Tunnel enters Manhattan it is directly under Canal St, but as the roadway rises to street level, it takes a slight S-curve south so that the portal is next to Canal St, not under it (and is now under a bulky building). To connect the G between Broadway and Flushing Av, Union St had to be created where it hadn't existed, and lots of buildings had to be razed. |
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