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(rshsdepot) from the other end
http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/2000/subway/images/brooklyn_bridge.
jpg
Here we have the Brooklyn Bridge entrance from the Brooklyn side, a
later view; Manhattan in the distance- see the twin urned top of the
Park Row Building (386 feet, tallest in world 1899-1903) in the distance
in Manhattan, to the left. To that building's right, nearer the bridge,
I forget that building's name, it is part of Pace College today.
That could be an El train from the Fulton Avenue El, or perhaps the
Myrtle Avenue El. Is it heading towards Park Row, or coming off the
bridge heading towards Sands Street Station and beyond? I am unsure,
there were four tracks, this train is on the inner of the northern side
two.
The streetcars lined up into the city took the outside lanes of the
bridge, the Els took the upper level. Some of these streetcars come from
Flushing, from Jamaica, off Graham Avenue, Putnam Avenue, there were
also bridge locals.
The Quaker Oats sign on the building- some of these old signs still can
be seen faded on some of the old buildings off the bridge, I don't know
about this building or sign.
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