New Abandoned Station Page: 76 St

Joseph Brennan

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Mar 31, 2002, 10:33:57 PM3/31/02

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There is new page on the Abandoned Stations site about closed
underground stations in New York.

Site: http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned
Page: http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/76st.html

The 76 St station in the Ozone Park section of Queens was for a brief
time the terminal of the Fulton St subway. The unusual circumstances
surrounding its appearance and abandonment are still not entirely
clear, but I have collected more information than has been previously
available in one place. Maps and photographs.

Joe Brennan

Ed (NY)

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Mar 31, 2002, 11:03:52 PM3/31/02

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Well, the paint scheme on that R10 looks suspicious...

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Peter T. Daniels

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Apr 1, 2002, 7:49:26 AM4/1/02

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Brigadoon, anyone?
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Peter T. Daniels gram...@att.net

Hank Eisenstein

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Apr 1, 2002, 9:03:12 AM4/1/02

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I'll take one! I'm falling for it, falling for it, falling for it...
-Hank

Jon Bell

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Apr 1, 2002, 10:48:27 AM4/1/02

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In article <AMZp8.8422$9N1.1...@typhoon.nyc.rr.com>,

Hank Eisenstein <ni...@quuxuum.org> wrote:
>
>"Peter T. Daniels" <gram...@att.net> wrote in message
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>> Joseph Brennan wrote:
>> >
>> > Site: http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned
>> > Page: http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/76st.html
>> >
>> > The 76 St station in the Ozone Park section of Queens was for a brief
>> > time the terminal of the Fulton St subway.
>>

>> Brigadoon, anyone?
>
>I'll take one! I'm falling for it, falling for it, falling for it...

A masterpiece! I've printed out a copy of that page, just in case it
disappears mysteriously at midnight tonight. :-)

--
Jon Bell <jtb...@presby.edu> Presbyterian College
Dept. of Physics and Computer Science Clinton, South Carolina USA

Joe Versaggi

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Apr 1, 2002, 5:03:35 PM4/1/02

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You had me going there until I saw the R10 in that paint scheme in
"1948". Right.
Good Job !

Peter T. Daniels

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Apr 1, 2002, 5:23:15 PM4/1/02

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A couple of phrases in the text give it away, too.

David Barts

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Apr 1, 2002, 6:49:19 PM4/1/02

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That's a rather serious problem, not being able to prove a station
actually exists before opening it for use. Good thing the press was
alert and caught it.

Come to think of it, I think I'll take half a day off tomorrow and
ask to see Tri-Met's documentation on the west side MAX. I can't tell
you how embarrassed I'll be if it turns out I've been commuting to
work for over a year on a railroad that doesn't even exist!

--
David Barts
Portland, OR

Joseph D. Korman

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Apr 1, 2002, 7:29:07 PM4/1/02

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Great research. I think I'll add a link from the JoeKorNer.

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Jim Guthrie

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Apr 1, 2002, 9:37:12 PM4/1/02

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It seems to me I have the station on an old Norman's map or some such as
well. This is all jogging some other vague memories.

Cheers,
Jim

Steven Litvintchouk

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Apr 2, 2002, 1:07:10 AM4/2/02

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Joe,
this was a great post for April 1.

From what they reported on the radio, the best that we computer geeks
could come up with is a utility that pretends to delete all the
applications on your hard drive. Ha-ha.

--
Steven D. Litvintchouk
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Kenneth Lin

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Apr 2, 2002, 1:26:08 AM4/2/02

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"Joseph Brennan" <bre...@columbia.edu> wrote in message
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Perhaps the NY ERA could arrange for a tour there!

Kenneth Lin

Peter T. Daniels

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Apr 2, 2002, 7:18:52 AM4/2/02

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Steven Litvintchouk wrote:
>
> Joseph Brennan wrote:
> >
> > There is new page on the Abandoned Stations site about closed
> > underground stations in New York.
> >
> > Site: http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned
> > Page: http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/76st.html

> Joe,

> this was a great post for April 1.
>
> From what they reported on the radio, the best that we computer geeks
> could come up with is a utility that pretends to delete all the
> applications on your hard drive. Ha-ha.

Brian Lehrer on WNYC did 20 minutes on Mayor Mike's plan to sell
*Bloomberg on Bloomberg* from kiosks rather than through bookstores. It
sure sounded like the callers were taking him seriously.

Joel Rubin

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Apr 3, 2002, 4:24:32 AM4/3/02

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On 31 Mar 2002 22:33:57 -0500, bre...@columbia.edu (Joseph Brennan)
wrote:

Of course, this area is known as the "City Line" with numerous
businesses on both sides of the Brooklyn/Queens line that are
obviously NOT 104 years old. (The City of Brooklyn and the town of
Jamaica in Queens County were consolidated into New York City on
1/1/1898.)

So perhaps the station went the same place the City Line went.

Also Broadway Junction is the name found on the BMT. The IND station
is Broadway-East New York.

I notice that, like Cinderella's accoutrements, the link between

http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned

and

http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/76st.html

has gone away with the end of April 1 although it's still in the
Google-cached version.