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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sat Nov 21 18:54:44 2020 Notice the ironworkers shimming down cables from the structure. How often do we see that anywhere nowadays??BTW, I'll give this a 5 out of 10.  |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Sat Nov 21 19:14:14 2020, in response to Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sat Nov 21 18:54:44 2020. I don’t have any idea but that is pretty good photo |
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Posted by qveensboro_plaza on Sat Nov 21 19:48:24 2020, in response to Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sat Nov 21 18:54:44 2020. I would guess Fulton St. El, approaching the flyover of the Fifth Ave. El. |
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Posted by Dyre Dan on Sat Nov 21 20:11:48 2020, in response to Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sat Nov 21 18:54:44 2020. Probably never, since OSHA surely would not allow it. |
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Posted by Elkeeper on Sat Nov 21 20:24:49 2020, in response to Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sat Nov 21 18:54:44 2020. There appear to be two sets of el structures, upper and lower. The upper set had three tracks, before it was dosmantled. That rules out the intersection of the Fulton St & 5th Ave els. I'll say it's the 2nd Ave el at 34th St. |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sat Nov 21 20:47:24 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by Elkeeper on Sat Nov 21 20:24:49 2020. You're warm |
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Posted by Elkeeper on Sat Nov 21 21:32:21 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sat Nov 21 20:47:24 2020. I'm warm! okay, 3rd Ave and 34th St? |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sun Nov 22 08:31:36 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by Elkeeper on Sat Nov 21 21:32:21 2020. You just cooled off. |
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Posted by zac on Sun Nov 22 10:20:36 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sat Nov 21 20:47:24 2020. Second Ave by the 59th St bridge? |
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Posted by TUNNELRAT on Sun Nov 22 10:28:28 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by Elkeeper on Sat Nov 21 20:24:49 2020. 2nd ave-n- 57st. |
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Posted by Avid Reader on Sun Nov 22 12:50:32 2020, in response to Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sat Nov 21 18:54:44 2020. I'd love to have that street lamp post as a front yard light with the signal lights running through the sequence. |
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Posted by Elkeeper on Sun Nov 22 17:01:07 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sat Nov 21 20:47:24 2020. What is throwing me off are those 2 white striped el pillars in the foreground. I thought they might have supported the 34th St shuttle structure under 2nd Ave. OK, another guess: 2nd Ave el in the area of 65th and 66th Streets? |
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Posted by randyo on Sun Nov 22 17:57:39 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by Dyre Dan on Sat Nov 21 20:11:48 2020. I had a couple of drinking buddies who were iron workers and as is often the case also Mohawks who seem to be rather adept at working at heights (nothing racist intended). They would talk about how on payday, they would slide down ropes from many stories on a building under construction to get to the office and get their pay. |
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Posted by randyo on Sun Nov 22 18:01:34 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by Dyre Dan on Sat Nov 21 20:11:48 2020. I had a couple of drinking buddies who were iron workers and as is often the case also Mohawks who seem to be rather adept at working at heights (nothing racist intended). They would talk about how on payday, they would slide down ropes from many stories on a building under construction to get to the office and get their pay and this is contemporary, OSHA notwithstanding. |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sun Nov 22 18:21:18 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by randyo on Sun Nov 22 18:01:34 2020. I've head that native american indians are genetically immune to acrophobia. Never knew if that was true or some sort of folklore or "old wives tale" |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sun Nov 22 18:23:08 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by Elkeeper on Sun Nov 22 17:01:07 2020. Now you're very warm, heading in the right direction. |
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Posted by randyo on Mon Nov 23 01:06:55 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sun Nov 22 18:21:18 2020. I was reading an article somewhere about that and it seems that only the northeastern Indians like Mohawks and Onondagas had that propensity for scaling high places. The plains Indians and other tribes didn’t seem to share that gift. |
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Posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG on Mon Nov 23 01:23:22 2020, in response to Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sat Nov 21 18:54:44 2020. Well, I waited to see WHO would find the location -- but I KNOW exactly where it is. Should I reveal ? Oh well, OKThis view is looking north from E. 96th Street along 2nd Avenue and the demolition of the 2nd Ave El in Manhattan, in late 1940. At the right is the recent former carbarn of the Metropolitan Street Railway Co. streetcars (conduit operated). The streetcars had run under the 2nd Ave EL. The carbarn is located (or was) between E.96th to E. 97th Street, and heads east one whole block to 1st Avenue. In distance is seen the E. 99th Street local station of the EL. The EL started to rise high around E. 89th Street and continued that way towards 99th street and a bit beyond.. Well, this should end this Guess the Location ! regards - Joe F |
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Posted by Elkeeper on Mon Nov 23 02:02:35 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sun Nov 22 18:23:08 2020. The remaining track structures over 2nd Ave are level, so that rules out the 86th St hump station. Between 65th St and 86th St were 72nd and 80th St stations. One of those? |
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Posted by Elkeeper on Mon Nov 23 02:05:32 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG on Mon Nov 23 01:23:22 2020. To think, I guessed below 86th St! Oh, well! Thanks, Joe!!! |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Mon Nov 23 09:42:40 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG on Mon Nov 23 01:23:22 2020. Today's winner. E96th St & 2nd Ave is correct. Good work, Joe! |
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Posted by Peter Rosa on Mon Nov 23 10:01:42 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Mon Nov 23 09:42:40 2020. It's hard to be sure, but I believe the building just barely seen on the left is still there, 1869 Second Avenue, |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Mon Nov 23 10:03:31 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by randyo on Mon Nov 23 01:06:55 2020. Interesting! |
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Posted by Elkeeper on Mon Nov 23 11:35:48 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Mon Nov 23 09:42:40 2020. DUH! I forgot that the 2nd Ave el ran level over the Manhattan topography, especially on the upper east side. Good catch, Joe! |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Nov 23 15:33:01 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by Elkeeper on Mon Nov 23 02:02:35 2020. Someone’s already answered but it’s near the Queensboro Bridge. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Nov 23 16:02:47 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG on Mon Nov 23 01:23:22 2020. Should have read the whole thread before posting my wrong guess! Thanks also for answering my question about that clock building. |
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Posted by randyo on Mon Nov 23 16:32:59 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG on Mon Nov 23 01:23:22 2020. If I recall, that carbarn remained up well into the 1950s. Sometime circa 1955, I had an interest in construction and demolition equipment and my father and i went down to that area one afternoon to see the wrecking ball demolishing what was just described as an “old trolley car barn” that was being razed to make way for an improvement being made to the FDR Drive. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Nov 24 12:11:31 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by randyo on Mon Nov 23 16:32:59 2020. Absolutely not, since it did not abut the FDR Drive, which is more than a block away. The present site of the carbarn is a playground and school. |
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Posted by Elkeeper on Tue Nov 24 13:12:23 2020, in response to Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sat Nov 21 18:54:44 2020. This photo was taken on/about March 21st, 1941. |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Nov 24 14:31:03 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by Elkeeper on Tue Nov 24 13:12:23 2020. Yep. Long before there was OSHA!! |
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Posted by Peter Rosa on Tue Nov 24 15:29:23 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Nov 24 12:11:31 2020. The present site of the carbarn is a playground and schoolA playground with an unforgettable name. |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Nov 24 17:43:50 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by Peter Rosa on Tue Nov 24 15:29:23 2020.  |
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Posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG on Tue Nov 24 18:42:21 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by Elkeeper on Mon Nov 23 11:35:48 2020. Hello El Keep and guys.that one was an easy one for me -- I spotted the neighborhood immediately (96th St & 2nd Ave) The 2nd Ave El was built by a separate company than was the 3rd Ave El. Thus is stronger and different structure construction - using mostly phoenix round steel EL columns and very heavy cross girder spans. It was desired to keep the tracks as level as possible throughout the lines route -- as to why so many sections of the EL were so high because the street dipped lower (hills and valleys, so to speak. Unlike the Manhattan 3rd Ave EL (my "EL") that followed the hills and dips of 3rd Avenue. I remember the old IRT EL trains of MUDC's and Q types groaning and whining under full power with full passenger loads to get up the 8 blocks long hill northbound from E. 76th Street Local EL Station to the E. 84th Street Local Station - the hill that ended at the south end of the 84th St Station platforms ! I lived right at that area. Anyway, glad to have helped solve the location. Joe F |
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Posted by randyo on Wed Nov 25 01:52:54 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Nov 24 12:11:31 2020. Well I read about it in a newspaper article and that was what the article said. Probably just another case of media misinformation. |
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Posted by Elkeeper on Wed Nov 25 23:00:05 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location...With a High Wire Act!, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Nov 24 12:11:31 2020. Maybe he was talking about the 96th St on-ramp construction to the FDR Drive. |
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