ELM274 N/E corner of Broadway and Whitney Avenue 1929
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D. Schrubba
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Wow! How different the station looked in 1929. I lived near here from 1960-1969. Gone was the totally covered stairways. The station was still in use into the 1980's but to discharge passengers. the station had no ticket office. As for today, nothing remains. Raised platforms are long gone and it is hard to tell where the 3 stairwells on the Whitney Avenue (Penn Station bound)side once existed.
Elmhurst was first known as Middleburgh, and later as Hastings, when it was established in 1652. Colonists began to refer to Hastings as “new town” in order to distinguish it from Queen’s first and abandoned settlement of Maspeth (established in 1642, abandoned in 1644). In 1683, the name Newtown was officially given to the village and township. In 1896 Cord Meyer jr. successfully rallied to change the town’s name to Elmhurst (meaning “a grove of elms”) in an effort to disassociate his development from the notoriously polluted Newtown Creek.
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1 comment:
Wow! How different the station looked in 1929. I lived near here
from 1960-1969. Gone was the totally covered stairways. The station was still in use into the 1980's but to discharge passengers.
the station had no ticket office.
As for today, nothing remains.
Raised platforms are long gone and
it is hard to tell where the 3 stairwells on the Whitney Avenue
(Penn Station bound)side once existed.
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