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Posted by Elkeeper on Fri Mar 13 21:21:10 2009, in response to Re: Tunnel stubs, posted by bigrene22 on Thu Mar 12 09:56:01 2009. That trackway, along with the Brooklyn (south) bound tunnel and platform under Nevins Street had been part of the origional IRT construction. In 1908, 10 years before the Lexington Ave. subway opened, the IRT asked the City to use the northside tracks of the Manhattan Bridge to connect Nevins St. to the Manhattan Bridge and to the 3rd Ave el. In return, the IRT promised to rebuild the 3rd Ave el to hold longer steel subway trains to provide service on the east side of Manhattan. This request was denied in 1911 and the City gave all of the bridge's subway tracks to the BRT. |
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