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…
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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…
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October 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…
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As 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…
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When 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,…
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The 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,…
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Not much remains of the Third Avenue Elevated, which ran from Chatham Square, in the City Hall area, all the way to Gun Hill and White Plains Roads in…
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IT’S A SUBWAY LINE the MTA tried to close down years ago and allowed to deteriorate for decades. It’s a line that connects to an elevated line that was razed…