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[PHOTO] Identify This Location |
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Posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu Apr 9 19:37:28 2020 
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Posted by LuchAAA on Thu Apr 9 19:41:40 2020, in response to [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu Apr 9 19:37:28 2020. Queensboro Plaza facing west. |
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Posted by jailhousedoc on Thu Apr 9 19:42:24 2020, in response to [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu Apr 9 19:37:28 2020. Looks like the Flushing ( # 7 ) line around 111th Street near the yard lead. |
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Posted by italianstallion on Thu Apr 9 19:53:59 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by LuchAAA on Thu Apr 9 19:41:40 2020. No, facing east. |
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Posted by Joe V on Thu Apr 9 19:57:31 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by jailhousedoc on Thu Apr 9 19:42:24 2020. Who so much ripped up track ? I was thinking of some now-demolished junction in the Bronx. |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Thu Apr 9 21:58:46 2020, in response to [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu Apr 9 19:37:28 2020. Queensboro Plaza looking west. Thats the Queensboro Bridge in the backround. Looks like the pic was taken shortly after 2nd Ave El service across the bridge was discontinued. |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Thu Apr 9 22:11:49 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Thu Apr 9 21:58:46 2020. Looks like the pic was taken shortly after 2nd Ave El service across the bridge was discontinued.No. It was after the Flushing and Astoria lines were separated. That was a diamond crossover. It allowed trains from Flushing to go over the 2nd Ave El and trains from Astoria to use the Steinway tunnel. The second connection, from Astoria to the Steinway tunnel, stayed in operation until 1949. |
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Posted by randyo on Fri Apr 10 03:28:13 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by italianstallion on Thu Apr 9 19:53:59 2020. It is facing west. After the IRT Astoria service was surrendered to the BMT in 1949, the lower level platform was extended west and covered over the space where the Xover used to be. If it were possible, it would have been a good idea to retain that Xover like they did the one on the upper level to make the shop and other non revenue moves between the lines easier. |
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Posted by Bill Newkirk on Fri Apr 10 06:40:38 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by LuchAAA on Thu Apr 9 19:41:40 2020. Queensboro Plaza facing west.Thanks for identifying ! Bill Newkirk |
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Posted by italianstallion on Fri Apr 10 12:42:32 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by randyo on Fri Apr 10 03:28:13 2020. OK |
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Posted by ChicagoMotorman on Fri Apr 10 13:34:24 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by Bill Newkirk on Fri Apr 10 06:40:38 2020. About what year? |
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Posted by Bill Newkirk on Fri Apr 10 16:21:46 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by ChicagoMotorman on Fri Apr 10 13:34:24 2020. About what year?May 13, 1950. Bill Newkirk |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Fri Apr 10 21:36:26 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by Bill Newkirk on Fri Apr 10 16:21:46 2020. To the day a little more than a quarter century before me. |
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Posted by jailhousedoc on Sat Apr 11 07:43:32 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by randyo on Fri Apr 10 03:28:13 2020. that is interesting, and it shows how they did not think much about the future back then, in my view. If I had the money available, the entire Flushing line would be re-done as an underground subway built to B division standards and the Astoria line would also be a subway with an extension to La Guardia Airport, along with a few other projects. It is likely that back in the late 1940's / early 1950's the focus was on building highways and not mass transit - gridlock, lack of parking spaces and air pollution were not even considered. |
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Posted by Elkeeper on Sat Apr 11 13:08:44 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by jailhousedoc on Sat Apr 11 07:43:32 2020. It is so easy to be an armchair general here. Most of us do it here, myself included. The Astoria line opened in 1917, twelve years before Glen Curtis Airport replaced the Gala Amusement Park. It later became North Beach and, later, NY Municipal Airport. Now, we call it LaGuardia Apt. Queens had a lot of open space, back then. Have you seen pictures around the area of the Flushing Line, too? |
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Posted by Edwards! on Sat Apr 11 19:36:40 2020, in response to [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu Apr 9 19:37:28 2020. Queensboro Plazas lower level,when the full station was there.You can see the old Second Avenue Elevated remains. |
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Posted by 3-9 on Sat Apr 11 22:34:17 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by Elkeeper on Sat Apr 11 13:08:44 2020. But with air travel being revolutionary then, it wouldn't have been a bad idea to extend the el(s) while land was relatively uninhabited. |
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Posted by Elkeeper on Mon Apr 13 18:21:22 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by 3-9 on Sat Apr 11 22:34:17 2020. Yes, but Robert Moses and the Depression put an end to any of those aspirations. besides, nobody thought of a train to LaGuardia Apt, back then. |
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Posted by jailhousedoc on Mon Apr 13 19:21:42 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by Elkeeper on Mon Apr 13 18:21:22 2020. like I said, they didn't think about that, only what would generate cash right at that time. Now to build such a line in these times would be very expensive, and then there is the NIMBY factor, so we might be long gone by the time many of these needed projects get built. |
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Posted by Elkeeper on Mon Apr 13 19:55:08 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Identify This Location, posted by jailhousedoc on Mon Apr 13 19:21:42 2020. Also, bear in mind that the airport was much smaller, with 3 or 4 airlines flying out of it. As for projects, we will be lucky to be alive if/when the 2nd Ave subway gets built to 125/Lex., or over to 125/St Nick. |
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