WHERE AM I?

by Kevin Walsh

I’m where they put el pillars right in the middle of the street.

34 comments

Gary April 4, 2012 - 3:52 pm

I’d say it was somnewhere along New Utretch Avenue under the D train.

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Kevin Walsh April 4, 2012 - 3:56 pm

Cold.

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Bill Fleming April 4, 2012 - 3:57 pm

On Myrtle Ave under the M Train

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Vix April 4, 2012 - 4:45 pm

Liberty Ave under the A?

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Mark April 4, 2012 - 4:59 pm

Myrtle Ave?

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Samuel Velasquez April 4, 2012 - 5:48 pm

under the J line

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Liman April 4, 2012 - 6:14 pm

The J train has a lot of these on the south side of Broadway, where the street cuts the grid and the cross streets are all hit it at an angle. Can’t place this one.

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Anthony Marcano April 4, 2012 - 6:54 pm

Somewhere under the el on McDonald Avenue.

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Carmelo April 4, 2012 - 7:09 pm

Stillwell Avenue, near Lafayette High School

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dennisson April 4, 2012 - 7:47 pm

New Utrecht Avenue between 72nd st and 66th st

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Kevin Walsh April 4, 2012 - 10:24 pm

No one’s close.

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roger_the_shrubber April 4, 2012 - 10:31 pm

Ozone Park.

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Beverly April 4, 2012 - 10:40 pm

Is this in Da Bronx?

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mike April 5, 2012 - 3:32 am

By the susquehanna hat company on flugal street?

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joe bernstein April 5, 2012 - 7:08 am

Pelham Bay Line

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D Rourke April 5, 2012 - 8:52 am

The M line where it veers off of Palmetto Street in beautiful downtown Ridgewood?

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r185 April 5, 2012 - 9:09 am

Under 31st Street in Astoria?

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Steve April 5, 2012 - 10:17 am

I’d guess North Bronx under the 2 or 5.

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Kevin Walsh April 5, 2012 - 10:39 am

Close, but where exactly?

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Heartland April 5, 2012 - 11:50 am

Near Waring & Herring? (just kidding)

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Steve April 5, 2012 - 6:03 pm

White Plains Road, maybe? I didn’t get to that part of town much when I lived in NY. When you said the Brooklyn and Queens guesses were way off I figured it should be under the 2/5, since it didn’t really look like anything I remember I saw riding the other Bronx lines.

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Nora April 5, 2012 - 11:05 am

Q train down past Ave H?

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Chris April 5, 2012 - 11:42 am

Cruger Ave just north of Sagamore St. under the 5 to Dyre Ave.

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Nora April 5, 2012 - 11:47 am

Oops, obviously disregard my guess there.

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Darryl Screven April 5, 2012 - 4:15 pm

Bronx Park East, White Plains Road Area

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BB April 5, 2012 - 7:56 pm

Bronx. Cruger Avenue under the 5 train.

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Kevin Walsh April 5, 2012 - 10:21 pm

Correctamundo

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BB April 6, 2012 - 5:07 pm

I figured it had to be somewhere near a portal or yard where the el isn’t very high. It would also be crossing a one-way street with not much traffic. The Dyer Avenue Line runs on it’s own right of way and crosses a lot of small streets. This is the surviving part of the NYW&B.

Do you know anything about this particular crossing? It doesn’t seem to be protected by zebra stripes or any other warning.

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Edward April 9, 2012 - 3:17 pm

Totally odd. I Google Mapped the street and crossing, and it looks like Cruger Ave must have been added after the old NYW&B Railroad was built. I can’t imagine the railroad would just plop down pillars in the middle of the road, unless Cruger Ave was a dusty little trail at the time and just grew up around the overpass.

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Allan Rosen April 5, 2012 - 9:30 pm

It’s somewhere where the el is not over a street

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Mark April 6, 2012 - 6:24 pm

Dyre Ave. Line where it crosses over Cruger Ave.

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STEVE April 8, 2012 - 10:50 am

Flushing Line, along Roosevelt Avenue @ Elbertson Street

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Miki April 10, 2012 - 2:54 pm

cruger av BX.

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Anna April 12, 2012 - 2:56 pm

Ozone Park past 101st

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