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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 randyo on Mon Apr 5 03:06:08 2021, in response to Re: Latest FBI mafia graveyard excavation in Ozone Park may have stumbled upon 76th Street, posted by MainR3664 on Sun Apr 4 08:20:53 2021. In all the reports about the existence of the station shell, nowhere was it ever mentioned that any service operated there or that any track was ever laid there. As I have often mentioned relative to this topic, the 174 St Yd in Was Hts was not built by the Board of Transportation but was built by the Board of Ed during the construction of PS 173 which was built a few years earlier to avoid having the school underpinned later by subway construction. The yard was built under the school site and lay there fir a couple of years till the rest of the IND was connected to it. A similar situation might very well have been the case with 76 St since at one point Pitkin Av which ended at approximately 75 St and was through routed with Old South Rd sometime in the 1930s. A check of the NY City archive failed to locate any maps of the area between the mid 1920s and 1950, so I was unable to ascertain the exact year the avenue was through routed. As was the case with 6th Av in Manhattan, Pitkin was in all likelihood through routed for the specific purpose of extending the subway. It’s a possibility that a city department other than the B of T not only through routed the street but may also have constructed the subway infrastructure in that area so that may account for the lack of documentation about the station. |
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