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Posted by Randyo on Sat Jan 29 23:10:58 2011, in response to 76st what happened?, posted by tunnelrat on Fri Jan 28 13:58:35 2011. Where to put this in the thread, I don't know but here is as good a place as any. While trying to find a street map of Queens from sometime between 1924 with the old alignment and 1950 with the new one, I came across some article, one of them on Wikipedia which indicate that the area in the 70s near the location of 76 St station was referred to as the "hole" where most of the homes in the area were below street level. Sometime in the 1930s, the city built sewers in the area not by digging under the street but by elevating it. The city offered to elevate the homes of the residents at city expense and all but a few homeowners had their homes elevated. The remainder of the homeowners declined and the result was that their first floors became basements and their second floors became first floors. That bit of knowledge about the area seems to add another air of mystery to the whole legend of the station.. Keeping that in mind and knowing that Pitkin dips at that point makes one wonder how far down Pitkin did dip before it was elevated to build the sewers. It also may answer the question as to approximately when Pitkin was through routed with Old South Rd. It may have been done at that time or it may have been done as I said in another post when the subway was being built. |
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