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Re: Interesting Read: Original Destination and Route Designation for BMT Standards |
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Posted by Dan on Mon Oct 16 11:58:29 2017, in response to Re: Interesting Read: Original Destination and Route Designation for BMT Standards, posted by heypaul on Sun Oct 15 11:37:56 2017. Guess you had to like trolleys to buy one of those homes right up against the private ROW. Did anyone ever build over the PROW section near 85 Street & 18th Avenue? |
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Posted by randyo on Mon Oct 16 15:54:35 2017, in response to Re: Interesting Read: Original Destination and Route Designation for BMT Standards, posted by Dan on Mon Oct 16 11:58:29 2017. It may not have been a like for trolleys so much as the affordability of the house. If you wanted a home badly enough, then you would buy there if it was all you could afford. |
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Posted by Dan on Mon Oct 16 16:23:22 2017, in response to Re: Interesting Read: Original Destination and Route Designation for BMT Standards, posted by randyo on Mon Oct 16 15:54:35 2017. True then and now. |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Mon Oct 16 18:07:09 2017, in response to Re: Interesting Read: Original Destination and Route Designation for BMT Standards, posted by randyo on Mon Oct 16 15:54:35 2017. Pictured here is the Lincoln Ave sta on the Flushing Line taken in the late 30s. That Apt house south wall behind the station is about 20 ft from the structure. Talk about enduring noise & vibrations, espicially when the expresses zipped by. I wonder how much lower the rent was on apts facing the el.
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Posted by Dan on Tue Oct 17 11:48:05 2017, in response to Re: Interesting Read: Original Destination and Route Designation for BMT Standards, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Mon Oct 16 18:07:09 2017. I grew up near the McDonald Avenue el. Two old-timer neighbors were kids when the el was built and remembered the pre-elevated days. McDonald Ave (then Gravesend Ave) was a nice street of homes and small shops with apartments above. The el almost immediately turned it into an undesirable location. |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Tue Oct 17 14:27:50 2017, in response to Re: Interesting Read: Original Destination and Route Designation for BMT Standards, posted by Dan on Tue Oct 17 11:48:05 2017. Two old-timer neighbors were kids when the el was built and remembered the pre-elevated days. McDonald Ave (then Gravesend Ave) was a nice street of homes and small shops with apartments above. The el almost immediately turned it into an undesirable location.Culver trains ran at grade for 40 years before the El was built. It had very little ambiance before or after the El was built. |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Oct 17 15:32:38 2017, in response to Re: Interesting Read: Original Destination and Route Designation for BMT Standards, posted by Dan on Tue Oct 17 11:48:05 2017. But the "unique" thing in the pic here is the EL was there about 10-15 years before the apartment house was built. I'v never seen or heard about a multiple dwelling housing unit built so close to an existing El. I've walked along there many times (back & forth to the old Sunnyside Movie house) & they have terraces facing the side of the platform. I guess folks threshold of annoyance was different back then. |
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Posted by SLRT on Tue Oct 17 20:26:14 2017, in response to Re: Interesting Read: Original Destination and Route Designation for BMT Standards, posted by Dan on Tue Oct 17 11:48:05 2017. It may have been nicer before the el, but it was a very busy railroad street with steam trains and freight and trolleys, in some years all at the same time. |
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Posted by Union Tpke on Sun Nov 12 11:50:19 2017, in response to Interesting Read: Original Destination and Route Designation for BMT Standards, posted by Bill Newkirk on Sat Oct 14 19:18:40 2017. The image is gone. |
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Posted by Union Tpke on Sun Nov 12 11:51:30 2017, in response to Re: Interesting Read: Original Destination and Route Designation for BMT Standards, posted by randyo on Sun Oct 15 17:05:05 2017. Here is a document showing that gauntlet tracks were considered. |
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Posted by Union Tpke on Sun Nov 12 11:54:31 2017, in response to Re: Interesting Read: Original Destination and Route Designation for BMT Standards, posted by randyo on Sun Oct 15 17:05:05 2017. more |
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