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Posted by Elkeeper on Wed Oct 26 13:24:43 2011, in response to Re: Lexington Ave. el & Pratt Institute campus, posted by MELLOW ONE on Mon Oct 24 14:24:10 2011. The Fourth Ave subway gradually, not initially, made the 5th Ave- Bay Ridge el redundant. It did not happen overnight. But, the BMT should have shut down the 5th Ave el in 1932, when it closed the Sands Street loop. By then, you had 4th Ave express and local services via the bridge or tunnel to the Broadway subway, as well as the Culver subway to Nassau Street. Why the BMT kept the "Rusty Old El", as it was known back then, remains a mystery to me! |
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