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Interboro stuff: Re: Set Your VCR |
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Posted by ntrainride on Thu Feb 15 11:12:37 2007, in response to Re: Set Your VCR, posted by BrooklynBus on Wed Feb 14 15:03:37 2007. Here's a little Interboro Parkway tidbit:"In Spring of 1931, the Old Timer, as a boy, sat on a hill in Cypress Hills Cemetery and watched a large number of Italian laborers with picks and shovels carefully unearth several hundred caskets. When all of the designated caskets had been unearthed, they were reburied in other plots in the cemetery. The engineers worked to disturb the fewest graves, accounted for the curved road that still exists today. When the bodies were removed, the City of New York’s Board of Estimate vested title to the right-of-way and approved the map of Grand Central Parkway to connect with the Interboro Parkway. In July 1931, work was progressing on the parkway. It was announced that it would cost $1,500,000 to connect the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. The first bridge in Glendale was nearing completion. This was one of the bridges over the parkway in Cypress Hills Cemetery. Queens Borough President George Harvey inspected this section of the parkway between Cypress Hills Street and Forest Park and watched the pouring of concrete for the first bridge. This section of the parkway was built by Walsh Brothers. It passed through Mount Carmel and Cypress Hills cemeteries, where several hundred bodies had been dug up and reburied. Got it from here: Times Newsweekly |
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