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Re: 1938 NYC BOT document showing original plan for 76th Street as Elderts Lane |
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Posted by randyo on Fri Jul 3 20:34:17 2020, in response to Re: 1938 NYC BOT document showing original plan for 76th Street as Elderts Lane, posted by Union Tpke on Fri Jul 3 07:57:19 2020. For some of you who continue to post that when the subway could not be continued down Pitkin, the city changed plans and decided to connect to the Fulton St el, that was NEVER the case. The connection to the Fulton St el and the subway down Pitkin were supposed to coexist. Te phots of the Euclid Av model board bear this out. Also one of the contract books of the area which was available at one time clearly indicates that east (RR south) of 80/Hudson St existing bMT signaling was to be used meaning that originally there were no plans for what we now know as Liberty Jct. The subway along Pitkin was supposed to continue as that planned track map shows and connect to the LIRR ROW via a portal in the approximate vicinity of Aqueduct. It was only after construction past 76 St (?) was halted for whatever reason that plans were altered to provide the connection to the LIRR ROW S/O Rock Blvd and construct Liberty Jct. According to a B of T report on new subway lines from 1950, the plans were changed sometime between 1948 when Euclid opened and 1950 when that report came out. That report did however also include plans for building the connection from the Qns Blvd Line N/O 63 Dr (Whitepot Jct) to the LIRR ROW with some sort of a junction just S/O Liberty Jct. |
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