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Streetcars and Spatial Analysis. What are your proposals for streetcars and or trolleybuses in Brooklyn and New York City? Here past trackage maps are presented and analyzed in todays environment. Geospatial analytical methods are discussed regarding new routes.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
New York Subway's "Rosewell" - Area 51 - Beyond the 76th Street Station
Source: Jeffrey Erlitz, "Tech Talk", in New York Division Bulletin, Vol. 47, No. 5, May, 2004, Pages 5-6. Originally from: Board of Transportation, City of New York, Study for Alignment and Grades from Grant Avenue to 106th Street with Connection to Rockaway Division of the L.I.R.R. This drawing was dated October 15, 1940 and was revised April 16, 1945.
In one of my earlier posts, I presented a map of the mysterious 76th Street Station at Pitkin Avenue in Brooklyn. No one knows if beyond a bulkhead, there is an empty shell that is just several feet long or even if there is an entire untracked station for four tracks with two side platforms with finished tile. I cannot solve this mystery and for readers that want more information, they can find it on the internet. I just happen to have this proposed map of the 76th Street Station and beyond. As originally planned by the New York City Board of Transportation, the IND Fulton Street Line east of Euclid Avenue was supposed to access the Rockaway Division of the L.I.R.R. using the trackage shown with stops at 84th Street, Cross Bay Boulevard and a branch south to Howard Beach and beyond. Instead, the Board changed its mind and the IND Fulton Street Line reached the L.I.R.R. trackage by using the B.M.T. City Line Elevated east of Grant Avenue. The Fulton Street IND subway has been running to Rockaway since 1956.
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ReplyDeleteThere is a 1943 Hagstrom map (published elsewhere online) which shows the extension as far as 106th St. Judging by this map, it appears that the line was intended to turn from Pitkin Av. onto Linden Blvd. at Sitka St. and continue to 106th St, a location which has always been inside the old parking lot at Aqueduct Racetrack. This would explain the only partial construction of Linden Blvd. between 88th St. and Cross Bay Blvd. Maps from that era to at least the 1980's (and a few still today) showed more elaborate interchanges at Linden Blvd with N/S Conduit Avs. I-78 was intended to occupy that corridor and to connect to the Williamsburg Bridge.
ReplyDeleteHi Bob:
DeleteThanks for your input. I will try to revisit the early 1950's aerial of the area. I also like your blog dealing with the BMT Chambers Street Station video. It just so happens this is the topic of my last post.
My best,
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Jeff,
DeleteInteresting! I don't remember posting anything about the BMT Chambers Street station. Got a link?
Thanks,
Bob
Hi Bob:
DeleteMy mistake. You commented on the video but you did not post it. It was posted by someone else.
My best,
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