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Posted by Michael549 on Wed Apr 21 03:54:54 2021, in response to Re: Question about the F train., posted by Mitch45 on Tue Apr 20 10:39:30 2021. I do not understand your statement concerning the 71st Avenue - Forest Hills Station subway station which was planned and built in the 1920's, and opened in the early 1930's.- - - - The Forest Hills -71st Avenue Station - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Hills%E2%80%9371st_Avenue_station Forest Hills–71st Avenue (previously known as 71st–Continental Avenues) is an express station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway, located on Queens Boulevard at 71st (Continental) Avenue in Forest Hills, Queens. It is served by the E and F trains at all times, the History The Queens Boulevard Line was one of the first lines built by the city-owned Independent Subway System (IND) and stretches between the IND Eighth Avenue Line in Manhattan and 179th Street and Hillside Avenue in Jamaica, Queens. The Queens Boulevard Line was in part financed by a Public Works Administration (PWA) loan and grant of $25 million One of the proposed stations would have been located at 71st Avenue. During the late 1920s, in anticipation of the arrival of the subway, land was bought by developers and was built up. Zoning laws were changed to allow fifteen-story apartment buildings to be built, and made the neighborhood of Forest Hills a more desirable place to live, especially as it was an express stop. Queens Borough President George Harvey predicted that the introduction of the subway to Forest Hills would turn Queens Boulevard into the "Park Avenue of Queens." - - - There is / was an Forest Hills LIRR station, located in Station Square in Forest Hills Gardens at Burns Street. - - - From The NYC-Subway.Org Website 71st-Continental Aves.-Forest Hills https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/IND_Queens_Boulevard_Line#71st-Continental_Aves.-Forest_Hills Four tracks, two island platforms. The tile stripe is light green with black border. I-beams are also light green. A dispatch tower is in the center of the southbound platform. The full mezzanine has a center fare control. There is a free crossover. East of the station the line widens to six tracks, with two tracks starting between the local and express pairs. They dive to a lower level, widen to four tracks, and run on a lower level through 75th Ave. station. This is primarily for access to Jamaica Yard and off-peak train storage. - - - I just do not understand any of the vitriol. The MTA and the NYC Transit Authority over the decades have made station signage, train signage, maps and other materials, various internal documents and maps - you would think that they would know how to describe a subway station. https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?137400 https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?136872 https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?126938 https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?102422 https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?102426 https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?2065 https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?5401 https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?2926 https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?5402 https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?4658 https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?4896 https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?24017 https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?5375 https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?69335 https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?4649 https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?24543 But, what do I know, there isn't a street called "Parkchester!" Mike |
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