BusTalk

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Here are two early 1950's views (3rd Avenue El) of the disconnected cut-off at Chatham Square, that had served trains of the City Hall branch......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?26017

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?26018

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

The (3rd Avenue El) City Hall Terminal, before and after the demolition of the vast BMT Park Row* elevated terminal......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?142619

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?132621

*It is interesting to note, that, after the BMT El trains over the Brooklyn Bridge stopped running in 1944, the streetcars that crossed the bridge were shifted over to the former El tracks, to allow for an additional traffic lane.

The streetcars continued to cross the bridge until 1950.

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

After the demolition of the old Park Row terminal complex in 1944, the multiple trolley loops were exposed to the elements.

In the second photo, note the old deck-roof car in the distance; this car was then OOS, and being used as a heated waiting area for trolley passengers......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?140728

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?140682

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Here's a post-1944 view showing a B&QT PCC running along the former BMT El tracks on the Brooklyn Bridge.....

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?140681

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Gun Hill Road, 1973:

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?57233

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?57234

Gun Hill Road, 1999..........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?57349

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

A rare reminder of a long-departed era of New York's transit history.....

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?28713

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

As TARS streetcars have also been mentioned in this discussion, I thought it appropriate to include this link on unearthing long-buried TARS conduit tracks, back in 1996......

https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Tracks_on_Broadway

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Here are two TARS-era photos at Gun Hill Road; in the first photo, note the SURFACE bus on the left, in the shadows of the El.......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?116719

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?116718

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Ten years (1963-1973) are represented here in these two vintage views at Gun Hill Road, when "double-deck rapid-transit action" was still the order of the day (not even a hint of graffiti in 1963!)

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?43102 *

*(two prewar IRT trains are seen here, as well as an Old Look SURFACE bus)

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?57217

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Gun Hill Road, 1963.

On the upper level of the station we see a train of then-new R-33's; on the lower level (serving 3rd Avenue trains) are 1938 WF cars.

For a number of years now, these last of the INTERBOROUGH cars were assigned exclusively to the 3rd Avenue El; in 1969, all prewar IRT cars were retired......

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?114373

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

3rd Avenue & 34th St., 1982.....

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?155480

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

3rd Avenue & 34th St., 1981......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153759

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

3rd Avenue & 34th St., 1972 (a LOT of "Noo Yawk" nostalgia, here!)

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154137

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

When this now-timeless photo was napped of Fishbowl #8478 at Chatham Square and E. Broadway, back in 1972, the Manhattan section of the 3rd Avenue El had been gone 17 years.

Again, a good deal of "street nostalgia", here.......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?155879

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

[N4 Jamaica]

I think the destination of fishbowl 8478 is NO PASSENGERS.