CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 In 1977 a set of R16 cars with #6315 bringing up the rear during the Great Age of Graffiti displays a JJ sign. Note Franklin K. Lane High School at right, and a black on white enamel station sign. Until the Unimark system was adopted for subway signage, there were a hodgepodge of different styles [...]
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE Retired line designations
May 9, 2010
By the end of June [2010] the V and W trains will be no more. As part of a broad-based budget cutting procedure, the millions-in-arrears MTA, getting little help from the state and federal government, now turns to you, the consumer of its services, and requires payment of higher fares and acceptance of stingier service. This [...]
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WITHERING MYRTLE. The last days of the Myrtle Avenue El.
December 9, 2007October 4, 1969. The Mets beat the Atlanta Braves in Atlanta 9-5, beginning a ‘miraculous’ postseason run for the Amazin’s in which they won 7 of 8 games against the NL West Champion Braves and AL Champion Baltimore Orioles, winning the World Series. While the USA had put two astronauts on the moon in July, [...]
Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: Brooklyn elevated Myrtle Avenue
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1907 BRT CARS
October 17, 2004As Ray Davies puts it on a song on the Kinks’ Village Green Preservation Society LP, People take pictures of each other Just to prove that they really existed I’d seen photos of the wooden elevated cars that ran on Brooklyn Rapid Transit and later, Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit, and I had even stood in them in the NYC Transit Museum. [...]
Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: elevated Queens Rockaway vintage cars
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REMNANTS OF THE NINTH AVENUE EL
December 25, 1999When is a subway not a subway? When, of course, it’s an elevated. The elevated used to be king in Manhattan. The sun never saw lengthy stretches of Pearl Street, Church Street, the Bowery, Greenwich Street, West Broadway, Columbus Avenue, First Avenue, Second Avenue, and Sixth, Eighth and Ninth Avenues, since they were hidden beneath [...]
Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: Bronx elevated Manhattan
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IND 4TH AVENUE. An unacknowledged masterpiece
September 20, 1999The Fourth Avenue IND elevated station opened July 1, 1933, and has pretty much been allowed to decay ever since. In my opinion, the MTA doesn’t know what it has, since it combines classical and Art Deco styles in a seemingly effortless manner. Hopefully, the MTA will wake up soon and realize it has a [...]
Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: 4th Avenue Brooklyn elevated
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REMAINS OF THE THIRD AVE. EL
January 17, 1999Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: abandoned stations Bronx elevated
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The lore of the FRANKLIN AVENUE SHUTTLE
October 4, 1998Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: Brighton Line Brooklyn elevated