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Re: Latest FBI mafia graveyard excavation in Ozone Park may have stumbled upon 76th Street |
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Posted by William A. Padron on Sun Apr 4 10:15:44 2021, in response to Re: Latest FBI mafia graveyard excavation in Ozone Park may have stumbled upon 76th Street, posted by TransitChuckG on Sun Apr 4 08:34:39 2021. Me too!For a more detailed insight on this 76th Street speculation, ongoing since the pre-internet days circa 1963 (which I always think in my mind when reading on this forum as "Not again?!? Give a rest, please?"), check out the book "The Routes Not Taken - A Trip Through New York City's Unbuilt Subway System" authored by Joseph B. Raskin, and published by Fordham University Press in 2014. Mr. Raskin was the Assistant Director of Government and Community Relations for MTA NYC Transit. It is all there in the book's chapter six titled "Ashland Place and the Mysteries of 76th Street", and om pages 145-148. The author notes that there was no newspaper coverage of any such construction if it had happened, no real infrastruce work evidence in that area (such as a pump room needed for the high water table), and no authorization from the officials at the Board of Transportation, the Board of Estimate and the NYC Planning Commission. Perhaps this is a more detailed conclusion about this, with the city struggling to get any work done with the lack of subway capital funds on hand... "The public hearing for the project completing work at Euclid Avenue didn't take place until Septeber 21, 1945." It continues on, and finishes with this statement... "Having said all of this, it's also obvious that the mystery of the tunnel to 76th Street won't clear up until a major construction project requires excavation along Pitkin Avenue. But that's not likely to happen any time in the near future." Besides, anyone produced or owns from anyone's collection of any real credible photo documentation from inside that station ever being built, in full or partially, yet?!? Now that's the $64,000 Question here. And so it goes... -William A. Padron ["Grant Avenue"] |
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