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Posted by randyo on Sun Apr 30 05:44:35 2023, in response to Re: Fulton Street Subway, posted by TUNNELRAT on Sat Apr 29 18:41:20 2023. One of the things that the article failed to mention is that originally, Pitkin Ave stopped at the Bkln/Qns border. Sometime during the construction of the IND subway, it was through routed with Old South Rd which started at the border and runs east from that point. Unfortunately, i have been unable to locate maps from the NYC archives, but sometime between the 1920s and the 1940s, Pitkin Ave was routed through private property and connected to Old South Rd and the entire thoroughfare east of there renamed as Pitkin Ave. That explains why Pitkin bears slightly south at approximately 79th St since it follows the original path of Old South Rd. The suggestion that Pitkin Ave would have been wider at that point if a station at 76 St actually existed, doesn’t account for the fact that the exact location where the station is reported to exist didn’t exist at all till the IND came along and over the years since further work on the subway was abandoned quite a few physical changes on the surface of Pitkin Ave have taken place, effectively erasing whatever traces of such construction might have existed. |
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