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Posted by randyo on Mon Aug 12 16:01:38 2013, in response to Re: Seinfeld Subway Episode, posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Aug 12 14:16:04 2013. As I mentioned, until the approximate time the subway was built out there Pitkin stopped at Ruby St which continues as 75 St on the qns side of the border and was through routes to South Rd some time in the 1940s similarly to the way 6 Av in Manhattan was through routed from W 3 St to canal St and connected to Church St. I also mentioned in another post, I heard somewhere that construction was halted due to the contractors encountering soil problems in the area and since that area has a high water table, it could be possible that further construction was determined to be either prohibitively expensive of impossible altogether. What is known is that the "mainline" of the Pitkin Av subway is well below the level of the K tracks leading to Grant and the A7 and A8 yd leads coming from Pitkin Yd so that considering the drop off in the grade level of Pitkin Av/South Rd in that area should have placed the 4 track subway infrastructure relatively close to the surface had construction been continued. |
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