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Re: Nostrand Avenue (A) Station |
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Posted by Elkeeper on Mon Apr 26 15:57:54 2021, in response to Re: Nostrand Avenue (A) Station, posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Apr 26 11:09:14 2021. As I wrote before, the City planners had a few grandiose ideas about expanding business districts in Brooklyn. So, Nostrand Ave, originally a planned local stop, was rebuilt into what it is today. TUNNELRAT is right (kills me to admit that!) about the narrow width of Fulton St in that area. The IND was to remain within the building lines, without taking any private property. The City had encouraged the Brevoort Savings Bank to open a branch at Macon St & Nostrand Ave in 1929, It later encouraged the principal bank director, Charles Betts, to move their headquarters to Fulton/Nostrand, demolish the Fulton Theater, and incorporate their Macon St branch into one big building. The last thing the City wanted to do was to encroach on the new bank headquarters.By the way, the Lafayette Ave route for the "GG" crosstown line was also chosen because the City planners also wanted to expand the downtown Brooklyn shopping/business area, north and east, along it. Besides, a Lafayette Ave subway had long been proposed as far back as the Tri-Boro Plans, prior to the Dual Contracts of 1913. The lower level of Nevins St had been built to connect a lafayette Ave route to the IRT. |
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