Ashland Street Connection

Currently in subchat, there is a thread dealing with the Myrtle Avenue Line in Brooklyn and its demise.  There is some discussion stating how useful would the line be today if it was still in existence and a thought / experiment dealing with a re-introduction of the line.  Where would the line end in the western part of Myrtle Avenue now that Metrotech occupies the former Myrtle -Jay Street-Bridge Street area?

  Around 1969,  before transit became fashionable and the only way to do research was to go to the Public Library, I went to the  Research Division of the New York Public Library at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue.   I remember either looking at a early New York Regional Plan (the first? )  written in the early 1920's or the Brooklyn Manhattan Transit (BMT) document dealing with transit development, also dated in the 1920's.   Something was mentioned about an Ashland Street connection where an elevated line would be connected to the relatively new BMT subway in the area.  Dual Contracts was not finished and the BMT was having trouble building the Nassau Street Loop at this time.  For better service, it was proposed to connect one of the elevated lines to the subway and have the line go to one of the BMT branches in Manhattan.  I do not remember if the document had a map showing where this would be built.

    It would be very difficult these days to construct an elevated line in a residential area, however, something that I never saw before is happening today:   Large skyscrapers are being built near the elevated Flushing Line.   Attitudes are changing about being near rapid transit and younger persons may be less against elevated lines.