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Posted by SMAZ on Fri Feb 4 16:03:57 2011, in response to Re: 76st what happened?, posted by Randyo on Fri Feb 4 15:05:38 2011. An old Hagstrom map shows the line to around 106 St under construction and due to open in 1943.And just for the same reasons that 106th was never built, there is no reason to believe that 76th was. Construction stopped somewhere and the best available evidence makes me believe that it was just past Elderts Lane. Since it doesn't look like construction of the line S/O Rockaway Av started until unification in mid 1940, its conceivable that once construction started on that portion of the line, it continued at a fever pace until the money ran out due to the war effort which would have been shortly after December 7, 1941. But that fever pace hit unplanned water problems east of Elderts Lane that probably slowed construction. Instead of taking it to 79th, construction was probably still at Forbell when the war came and construction stopped. |
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