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Hart Bus
Age: 74 Joined: 24 Apr 2007 Posts: 1150
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Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 11:14 am Post subject: Malbone Street Train Wreck - 90th Anniversary Today |
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November 1, 1918 is the date of the worst subway wreck in NYC history. Accounts vary but is generally accepted that over 90 persons died at the scene and at least a dozen more at area hospitals from their injuries.
An untrained motorman / strikebreaker was told to take out a train that he didn't know the braking system for. He took a curve under Prospect Park too quickly and the wooden cars jumped the track.
To mark this occasion, two buddies (or more) will meet a pub reccomended by Mr. Linsky's daugher (and seconded by one of the atteness) to have some food. We will then go the the Fraklin/Fulton street stop of the Franklin Shuttle to ride the 10:45 southbound train that, while in revenue service, lays up by passing the spot where the collision happened.
The crash was so horrific, that the name of Malbone Street was changed to Empire Boulevard to try and and erase the memory.
Should you look on a current Brooklyn Street map, there is a Malbone Street, but that is in Bedford Stuyvesant and is only a one or two block dead end street that I don't think was ever connected to its namesake. |
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