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Posted by gbs on Fri Jun 17 00:20:13 2022, in response to Question About the “L” BMT line, posted by Mitch45 on Thu Jun 16 22:38:40 2022. Are we sure we're talking about the same thing? I haven't been to Montrose Av in a while, but we once took a tour there with Joe Cunningham, and the only evidence of the ramp was the high ceiling above the Manhattan-bound track right there in the station. As can be seen in those photos, especially this one, the ramp was along Bushwick Av going north from Montrose Av, heading towards Grand Av, right where the future station would be. There should be no remnants of the ramp south of Montrose Av towards Morgan Av. In the Montrose Av paragraph on the Canarsie Line history page at nycsubway.org site it says: Somewhere just beyond, on the citybound side, is a long-forgotten ramp leading to the street. This is where BMT Standard cars were fed directly into the subway back in the twenties. Long closed off and forgotten, remnants can be seen from the front of the passing train. This is not quite true. The ramp came down directly over the Manhattan-bound track and was completely removed (because it was in the way), not closed off and forgotten. |
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