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Posted by G1Ravage on Wed Nov 21 06:36:49 2007 Another nice thing about being in the B Division is that it's given me a chance to see a lot of IND terminals up close and personal, in ways I couldn't before.Inwood - 207 Street I believe used to have a mezzanine that stretched the entire length of the station, north to south. It was during the 1998 station renovations that the mezzanine was almost entirely blocked off, save for the extreme north and south ends. The blocked off area became walled over, had an elevator put in, and became an employee area. Even to this day, they're building rooms back there. For what purpose, I have no idea. It's a real mess. But the old wall tiles pointing the way to 207th Street are still visible back there, as are advertisements. As far as I can tell, there used to be public bathrooms in there as well. They were demolished during the construction, but some fragments and pipes remain. Washington Heights - 168 Street has an area on mezzanine level near the south end of the station that's gated off. It leads to two staircase exits that have long since been cemented over. The steps are still there, but they end in a low, concrete ceiling a short distance up. There's also an old (A)/(B) line service information sign on the wall. This is visible through the gate from the passenger-accessible area. The sign must be from the late 80s or early 90s. The entire south end of the mezzanine, in fact, is employee-only, but I'm not certain how long it's been that way. The southern-most staircases from the platforms up to the mezzanine are now gated to prevent passengers from wandering up there, but it appears as though they were once passenger-accessible. The crew facilities are pretty damn old, though, so perhaps I'm mistaken. How about at Euclid Avenue? Was the mezzanine always so small? Or did such a large employee facility always exist there? Kinda don't think so, since the gold plaque outside the door states it was built in 1998 or so. If so, then what kind of facilities were there prior? I also used 163 Street - Amsterdam Avenue the other day, and was amused at how almost 60 - 70% of the northern half of the mezzanine and its exits are closed off. |
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