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Re: Possible Major Evidence of Tunnel To 76TH STREET! |
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Posted by HANDBRAKE on Tue Jul 14 15:07:33 2020, in response to Re: Possible Major Evidence of Tunnel To 76TH STREET!, posted by K. Trout on Fri Jul 3 14:19:47 2020. Along Pitkin Avenue in front of the Municipal Parking lot that is adjacent to, but across the street from the Grant Avenue IND Station are subway gratings, and one Emergency Exit. The subway tunnel extends a very short distance south (East) of the Emergency exit to a solid concrete and vertical steel beam wall.There are no cinder blocks across A1 through A4 tracks under Pitkin. The cinder block wall that is frequently made mention of are A7/A8 tracks that would have been the main line yard lead from 76th Street, and where those tracks transition to K designations track yard lead towards the subway tunnel portal at the Grant Avenue Station. The tunnel construction under Pitkin Avenue at the Emergency Exit location is extra wide to accommodate the decent of yard lead tracks A7 & A8. NYCT track diagram for the proposed extension at 76th Street shows a bumpber block where A7 joins A1 & A2 track north of 76th Street. Similar to how K2 track drops down from Grant Avenue just outside south of Euclid Avenue to meet A2 & A4 track. B5 track at 47-50th Street has the same emergency run away bumper block arraignment just north of that station. Why would yard leads be built into a station with no connection to the main line does not make any sense. I believe that it was all about money. By 1948 BoT construction money most likely went to patching up former IRT and BMT properties, as did Bond Issue money to build the 2nd Avenue subway went to other places. The subway under Pitkin was completed with money for contracts underway prior to unification in 1940. The subway under Pitkin was completed during the Second World War, but materiel priorities, and shortages due to the war resulted with the subway extension from East NY to Euclid having to wait until 1948 to be completed. K1 and K2 tracks to Grant avenue were built during this construction, since there is no visoble evidence that civil construction built to bring K1 and K2 tracks up towards the Grant Avenue station were added after original construction was completed. Just past the descending A5 track yard lead to the K1 track up ramp it becomes plain as a dimply lit day in the tunnel. The plan to recapture the NYC build dual contract elevated structure on Liberty Avenue in the vicinity of Grant Avenue is evident in a proposed 1939 IND system expansion map. Does 76th street exist. I don't believe that it does. There are too many hear say eye witnesses who's stories seem to be an almost near miss, and at times rival the fabled lost island of Atlantis in the Atlantic Ocean, not Aegean. |
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