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Re: (rshsdepot) LIRR Flatbush Avenue Depot
rebuild the station?
hey are they planning to demolish the New Century Buildings when they build
their super stadium over the old RR yards? In today's map it looked like
there was hardly room for the Lehigh-Starrett Building..
Those buildings, that one with the sealed off huge arch where locomotives
once passed through..these are rare relics left in Manhattan...what a shame
the no one cares about them..
at least they claim to want to use the elevated High Line...though a huge
chunk is gone at 23rd so it won't go very far...I hope they keep that cool
chimney at the turn
Paul
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Delibert" <stevdel_@_prodigy.net>
To: <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 7:18 PM
Subject: (rshsdepot) LIRR Flatbush Avenue Depot
> I recently came across someone who salvaged a large part of the facade
> of the LIRR depot at Atlantic and Flatbush Aves., Brooklyn, when it was
> demolished a number of years ago, and he has been moving these many tons
of
> rock around from vacant lot to vacant lot, which get harder and harder to
> find as the neighborhood gentrifies up and people want to build on them.
> Does anyone around here have a clue as to a suggestion I could make to
> him to find a real home for this stuff? I admit that building was
certainly
> never one of my favorites, but it is historic (1911?) and significant, and
> it would be a shame to see what's left of it disappear, which might happen
> if he runs out of vacant lots or money.
> My impression is that he's spent considerable bucks salvaging this
thing
> and moving it around, probably more than he could afford to part with as
an
> outright donation, but he's not exactly viewing this as the investment
that
> will retire his children and his children's children, either.
> Anyone know anyone with a passion for this building who would want to
> take on a fund drive and a land drive and a restoration drive and a . . ..
?
> Thanks
> Steve Delibert
>
>
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> railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org
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End of RSHSDepot Digest V1 #630
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