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Posted by William A. Padron on Fri Apr 30 23:20:15 2021, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for April 29, posted by William A. Padron on Fri Apr 30 20:07:50 2021. Yes, the street below was known as Lefferts Boulevard, and most likely it became that way when the Queens Street renaming plan went into effect, most likely a few years after the el station opened in September 1915.One of the better unanswered questions would be as to why the BRT or BMT never changed the station name signs there at least from "Lefferts Avenue" to "Lefferts Boulevard" in the first place. "Lefferts Boulevard" was listed as a street in the 1939 WPA NYC Guide, but as "Lefferts Avenue" for the BMT elevated station. SMH on that one. When the Jamaica Avenue elevated was being built, and based upon what I had seen inscribed on the negative from a print in the TM archives, the station at 111th Street was to have been called "Greenwood Avenue", such like on the Liberty Avenue route. Of course when it opened in May 1917, it (the station and street) was known as 111th Street by that time. -William A. Padron ["<-Napier Ave - Greenwood Ave->"] |
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