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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun May 3 16:10:46 2015, in response to Re: POSTCARDS: Brooklyn Bridge and NYW&B, posted by italianstallion on Sun May 3 10:11:14 2015. No worries! Perhaps the Riverdale stop fell into disrepair in the 50's, though I doubt that. It was a short, ground level wooden platform that wasn't even one car length. Across, on the river side, there wasn't anything at all. There were gaps in the third rail though that would allow you to cross safely and there was wood between the rails to walk on to get over there.Perhaps my phrasing mislead, the stop was always there from way back since employees used it. But since it was such a threadbare stop, and a long way down a dirt path from the top of the hill, it wasn't used much other than by employees that lived there. Of course, once they started sprouting apartment buildings up that way, it became a real station used by regular folks. Does that help clarify my meaning? And as to the mysterious "wood", maybe my bearings are off and it was north of Yonkers, I thought it was south but my memory of it since I didn't really use it is quite hazy there. But it was absolutely on the Hudson line and not too far north of the city. |
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