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Posted by zac on Wed Nov 17 13:30:23 2021, in response to Re: One more thing [PHOTOS], posted by qveensboro_plaza on Wed Nov 17 12:24:51 2021. Yes! This is exactly what I speculated. The tail track was built over the Jackson connection provision after QBP was originally built.I also found a Transit Commission letter (again in plain sight on NYCSubway.org) from 1922 talking about expansions that calls for building the Crosstown SUBWAY, and that the initial plan for the Crosstown El was deferred due to opposition to an el, and the city had no funds left to build it as a subway. "Brooklyn Crosstown Line (5) The so-called Brooklyn Crosstown Line was originally projected as an elevated when the dual system was laid out, but its construction was deferred because of local objection to elevated construction, and because of the fact that the city's resources for the more expensive alternative of subway building had been exhausted. It is the opinion of the Commission that the line should be built as a subway without further delay; first, as a means of articulating all of the rapid transit lines at present traversing Brooklyn and Queens, so that any one of these can be reached conveniently and quickly from any other one; second, as a means of access to the shore front of Brooklyn and Queens north of the Navy Yard; and third, as a direct means of carrying passengers from Manhattan and Queens to Brooklyn and Coney Island without traversing the congested district of lower Manhattan. Such a line will tend further to decentralize traffic by building up another prosperous business thoroughfare north and south in Brooklyn, and will save the Queens traffic bound for Brooklyn from a long detour through Manhattan. Through Long Island City the line will follow Jackson Avenue, one of the widest and most important thoroughfares in the business section of Queens. Through the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, it will follow Manhattan Avenue, the principal business street of that section, and thence through Roebling Street, Williamsburgh, and by the cutting of a new street, of about three blocks in length, from Roebling Street to Bedford Avenue, to a connection with the Brighton Beach Line at Fulton Street and Franklin Avenue. In its progress it would furnish points of transfer to the stations of all the other lines it would intercept-the Broadway, Myrtle and Lexington Avenue elevated lines, and the 14th Street-Eastern subway. The Commission has also in view a further connection between this line by way of Flushing Avenue or Park Avenue and Jay and Smith Streets, to the Borough Hall section of Brooklyn. At some future time, no doubt, it will also be desirable to connect the northern end of the line directly with the Astoria branch of the Queensborough System, thence into Manhattan at 125th Street and across 125th Street to Fort Lee Ferry. The estimated cost of the line as now proposed is $24,000,000, and the time to complete from three to three and one-half years." https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/New_Subways:_Proposed_Additions_to_Rapid_Transit_System..._(1922 The article does not specify the connection at QBP, it may have been a subway there too. It finally got built as the IND. |
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