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Posted by Elkeeper on Sat Apr 24 15:20:49 2021, in response to Nostrand Avenue (A) Station, posted by Wallyhorse on Sat Apr 24 05:02:16 2021. Wally, we have been through this before! Go to nycsubway.org, to the IND Fulton St Line, and check out the Nostrand Ave station. It clearly says that it had originally been designed as a standard IND local stop on one level. Yes, an IND 4 track station with 2 island platforms would not have fit there. I believe, as I have said before, that the station setup was changed when City planners wanted to have a satellite business district there with an express stop. It would have been centered at Nostrand & Fulton, extending for about a 5 block radius. Hoping to benefit from this new district, City planners convinced bank director, Charles Betts, to build his Brevoort Savings Bank's main headquarters on Nostrand, between Fulton and Macon. It replaced the old Fulton Theater and expanded the Brevoort's bank's branch on Macon St.. Unfortunately, the bank opened in 1932, at the height of the Depression. No other companies followed suit there and the satellite district never materialized. |
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