Corner of Irving and Suydam
Boroughs Unite!: The MTA is proposing possibly trying to try to think about thinking about building a circumferential subway using existing rights of way currently used by freight trains. Seems it would pass through Bushwick. Bronx, ho! and this time I’m not talking about your cousin.
Let It Pop: The City is, of course, planning to supplement State and Federal intervention in the alleged subprime mortgage “crisis.” It’s all blamed on the lack of regulation, natch, when in actuality the government is what initiated the credit expansion that made cheap and risky loans possible.
Hou Done It?:Harry Houdini might get exhumed from his Ridgewood grave to see if he was poisoned.
FormerRidgewoodite March 10th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
That subway the MTA is talking about would use what is now the freight tracks that run next to the L line over by Moffat St by the Wilson Ave station. The line runs right under the LIRR’s East New York station by the L’s Atlantic Ave station. There’s even an old abandoned station under the current in use East New York station from when the LIRR used to run passenger service on that old freight line until the 1920′s or 1930′s. It then runs northwards through Bushwick to Ridgewood and then next to the M line over by the Metropolitan Ave station before heading north to the Hell Gate Bridge and the Bronx.
stockholmer March 11th, 2008 at 10:30 am
The easiest part of the extension would be extending the stub end of the M up to Queens Boulevard, connecting to the E,F, G, R and V. Building that extension would use the right of way that’s adjacent to the M line, increase service to an under-served area of queens, and make the M another option for Queens riders headed to Bushwick, Ridgewood, Williamsburg or lower manhattan.
In short, I doubt it will ever happen.
There’s a nice story on Second Ave. Sagas with maps and links