(rshsdepot) Brooklyn Bridge Terminal and City Hall Terminal

["Paul Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

See:
http://www.railroadextra.com/bbpkrow.Html

It is hard to place this view with what is there today. Actually more 
open and airy today despite the tangle of asphalt.

We see in this picture the linked elevated stations of the Bridge lines 
on the right (note the two levels above for streetcars on middle level, 
El and bridge rail cars, cable cars included to 1908, on top level; the 
high glass roof for when there were steam here as well before 1890's 
electrification)

Straight ahead is the exit (linked to the Bridge terminal for 
transferring) from the City Hall Terminal of the El branch of the 3rd 
Avenue El which came down Park Row

Down below are streetcars of the 3rd Avenue Railroad. (Though it is 
possible these were still cable cars, either way they used the same 
middle culvert slot between the two rails; the electric contact system 
replacing the cable below when the switch was made) From the bottom of 
Park Row at Broadway up the Bowery, on the route of the original NY & 
Harlem RR up to Grand Central via South Park, then up 3rd Avenue to the 
Bronx. After they built the current Grand Central Terminal the 
streetcars of this line went through the current vehicular tunnel on 
South park, to 42nd Street, where they came out of that area where there 
once was a tourist info site, maybe a restaurant now, and turned onto 
42nd

Are those barrels of beer or pickles on that dray on Park Row?

To the right is the Pulitzer Building entrance. Up in the dome above, 
Nellie Blye asked for a job, Pulitzer helped instigate the Spanish 
American War, the first color comics and the first crossword puzzles 
were published in the World; today it is approach lanes to the Brooklyn 
Bridge, the terminal is I think the pedestrian entranceway...I think the 
building peaking out behind may be where the Municipal Building is 
today...

you can see a lot further now, you can see the bridge for one thing...

That is more info than these guys give, they don't seem to even have a 
year for this photo...I am guessing 1898...

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