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W.B.'s Rail Almanac for November 12th

Posted by W.B. on Mon Nov 12 04:02:00 2018


November 12, 1935 - The Book of First and Last Runs

Manhattan, New York
Eighth and Ninth Avenues Railway Company
Eighth Avenue Coach Corporation

Buses replace streetcars on the Eighth Avenue-Central Park West and Ninth and Amsterdam Avenues lines. The aforementioned trolleys had been run by the Eighth and Ninth Avenues Railway which, in its last months, had been owned by New York Railways. Horse-drawn streetcars had first run along Eighth Avenue in 1855, and Ninth Avenue in 1859. The replacement bus service will be provided by the Eighth Avenue Coach Corporation as Route Nos. 10 and 11, respectively.

As part of this bustitution, Central Park West throughout its entire stretch between 59th and 110th Streets is converted to two-way traffic. It had previously run one-way southbound.

(Sources: "Central Park West to Be 2-Way Route," The New York Times, February 14, 1935; "Bus Line Will Run Eighth Av. Trolleys," The New York Times, May 25, 1935; "Buses to Run Soon on 8th and 9th Avs.," The New York Times, October 5, 1935; "Eighth Av. Buses to Run on Tuesday," The New York Times, November 7, 1935; "8th Av. Buses Bring New Traffic Rules," The New York Times, November 12, 1935; "Last Trolley Cars Clang on Eighth Av.," The New York Times, November 13, 1935.)

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Re: W.B.'s Rail Almanac for November 12th

Posted by randyo on Mon Nov 12 16:25:19 2018, in response to W.B.'s Rail Almanac for November 12th, posted by W.B. on Mon Nov 12 04:02:00 2018.

Intersting. I never knew that CPW was ever one way.

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Re: W.B.'s Rail Almanac for November 12th

Posted by W.B. on Mon Nov 12 16:54:36 2018, in response to Re: W.B.'s Rail Almanac for November 12th, posted by randyo on Mon Nov 12 16:25:19 2018.

Not only that, but it was widened when the Eighth Avenue subway was being built.

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Re: W.B.'s Rail Almanac for November 12th

Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Nov 12 16:56:13 2018, in response to Re: W.B.'s Rail Almanac for November 12th, posted by W.B. on Mon Nov 12 16:54:36 2018.

It was widened when the streetcar tracks were removed, with the street widened onto the former streetcar ROW. It was not actually widened.

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Re: W.B.'s Rail Almanac for November 12th

Posted by W.B. on Mon Nov 12 16:59:03 2018, in response to Re: W.B.'s Rail Almanac for November 12th, posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Nov 12 16:56:13 2018.

Ah. Must've read it wrong, or it was badly written.

But I did see a pic of SB traffic along CPW when the streetcars still ruled along Columbus Circle.

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Re: W.B.'s Rail Almanac for November 12th

Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Nov 12 17:23:47 2018, in response to Re: W.B.'s Rail Almanac for November 12th, posted by W.B. on Mon Nov 12 16:59:03 2018.

CPW was in-fact one way prior to the widening.

It’s ironic that it was actually the first one way avenue, and is presently two way where most avenues have become one way.

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Re: W.B.'s Rail Almanac for November 12th

Posted by randyo on Tue Nov 13 01:34:31 2018, in response to Re: W.B.'s Rail Almanac for November 12th, posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Nov 12 17:23:47 2018.

It sounds a lot like Prospect Park West in Bkln.

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Re: W.B.'s Rail Almanac for November 12th

Posted by Avid Reader on Tue Nov 13 13:24:31 2018, in response to Re: W.B.'s Rail Almanac for November 12th, posted by W.B. on Mon Nov 12 16:59:03 2018.

Is this what you think you saw?

Columbus Circle 1912. Just above the Circle is one of President TRUMP's Properties, One Central Park West!!



A later Post Card, showing trolleys around Columbus Circlw.

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Re: W.B.'s Rail Almanac for November 12th

Posted by W.B. on Tue Nov 13 14:15:38 2018, in response to Re: W.B.'s Rail Almanac for November 12th, posted by Avid Reader on Tue Nov 13 13:24:31 2018.

Too early. The pic I saw was one taken around the 1920's or early '30's, in a book of lost NYC streetcars.

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