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Re: Tracks on Vanderbilt Ave in Brooklyn |
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Posted by jan k. lorenzen on Thu Sep 29 18:05:45 2022, in response to Tracks on Vanderbilt Ave in Brooklyn, posted by zac on Wed Sep 28 17:56:20 2022. The Vanderbilt Ave tracks were still active fairly late in Brooklyn trolley operations. Once scrap prices went way down around 1950 or so it was no longer profitable to pull them out after operations ended, so they were left in place and left for the city to yank out during eventual street reconstruction. When I lived in Clinton Hill 79-92, the tracks on Vanderbilt were only under one layer of asphalt and frequently wore through, same for Fulton, Greene and others. Vanderbilt tracks were cut in intersections when the city redid DeKalb, Myrtle and Lafayette. Got a hunk of track from Lafayette's reconstruction, but lost it a few years later. The tracks on Nassau Ave and Lorimer near where I live now in Greenpoint were pulled soon after the trolley quit shortly after WWII, but nearby tracks on Driggs and Bedford that abandoned later are still there in most places. Graham and Manhattan Ave were reconstructed not too long ago and those tracks of course were pulled. Before that, you could still see the carhouse tracks at Box and Manhattan leading to the curb exposed until then. |
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