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Posted by qveensboro_plaza on Mon Jan 14 22:45:08 2019 Someone suggested we bring back more of these, so here is a fairly easy one. The photo is interesting mainly for the variety of rolling stock shown.Have at it! 
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Posted by andy on Mon Jan 14 23:38:30 2019, in response to Guess The Location?, posted by qveensboro_plaza on Mon Jan 14 22:45:08 2019. IRT Woodlawn Jerome, at Burnside Ave. Station, looking west.Train on the left is heading uptown towards Woodlawn. Looks like a train on the center track. Might be a 9th Ave. El train that terminated there and was heading back downtown. |
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Posted by ModelRider on Tue Jan 15 00:14:09 2019, in response to Re: Guess The Location?, posted by andy on Mon Jan 14 23:38:30 2019. Spot on.DOB data puts this picture around 1919/20. That brick building on the corner turned 100 last year. Built a year after the station opened. 
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Posted by qveensboro_plaza on Tue Jan 15 07:51:07 2019, in response to Re: Guess The Location?, posted by ModelRider on Tue Jan 15 00:14:09 2019. How different it all looks, encumbered with signage!I went to NYU University Heights, and was impressed that the station's primary name was "New York University," with "Burnside Avenue" listed below it. It was still a few blocks hike up the grade of Burnside Ave to reach the campus. I covered the name in the picture, but here is how the sign read. They were still in place in the early '70s. 
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Posted by Dyre Dan on Tue Jan 15 09:04:50 2019, in response to Re: Guess The Location?, posted by qveensboro_plaza on Tue Jan 15 07:51:07 2019. They were still in place in the early '70s.No, in the 1960s signs had Burnside Ave. as the primary name, with New York University in smaller type below it. That was my home station for years, but I completely failed to recognize it in the old picture. |
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Posted by qveensboro_plaza on Tue Jan 15 10:22:59 2019, in response to Re: Guess The Location?, posted by Dyre Dan on Tue Jan 15 09:04:50 2019. Yes, you are correct. My memory is not accurate.I think in the early 20th Century NYU had dreams of building its main campus in University Heights. Certainly the original McKim, Mead and White buildings were grandiose, and the Hall of Fame colonnade overlooking the upper tip of Manhattan was impressive. The grounds were large enough to create a major campus. I think the early station name reflects that hope. Eventually NYU decided to concentrate on Washington Square, and although there were dormitories and even a few frat houses, University Heights became mostly a local commuter campus. Enrollment in the later years was not especially strong. By the early 70s, the neighborhood was emptying out, prompted partly by the creation of Co-op City - where many former West Bronx people relocated - and also by the general suburban exodus of that era. It happened very quickly. I can recall apartment buildings that had been fully occupied and within the course of a year were practically empty. It was happening across the West and South Bronx. NYU was in big financial difficulty, and sold the campus to the city for Bronx Community College. The Engineering school was sold off, I believe to Brooklyn Polytech. |
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Posted by italianstallion on Tue Jan 15 11:49:06 2019, in response to Re: Guess The Location?, posted by qveensboro_plaza on Tue Jan 15 10:22:59 2019. Ironically, NYU recently bought the former Brooklyn Polytech tor restore its engineering program. |
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Posted by italianstallion on Tue Jan 15 11:50:12 2019, in response to Re: Guess The Location?, posted by qveensboro_plaza on Tue Jan 15 10:22:59 2019. A very good summary of what happened to NYU Heights, my wife's alma mater. |
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Posted by Elkeeper on Tue Jan 15 12:31:52 2019, in response to Re: Guess The Location?, posted by andy on Mon Jan 14 23:38:30 2019. Might be a 6th Ave el train at Burnside Ave. This photo was taken when there were few automobiles, so it's well before the Dec 4th, 1938 closing of the 6th Ave el. After that, most 9th Ave el trains terminated at Burnside Ave, until the el line closed on June 11th, 1940. |
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