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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Richard Sullivan

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Apr 1, 2002, 9:08:00 PM4/1/02

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I thought it was downright Brilliant!

All we got here in Albuquerque today was some radio talk jock spoofing
about a made-up "pooper-scooper" tax.

The effort and clearly the love that went into the 76th Street page
speak volumes.

Thank you for the wit and the creativity.

Richard
Albuquerque (Somewhat west of Amersham)

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.

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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.