Remsen Village, Brooklyn
The Bay Ridge Line continues on its northeasterly course on
elevated tracks through Remsen Village.
Remsen Avenue / Rugby / Ford's Corners Station
The old Bay Ridge Line had a station somewhere around this bridge
crossing Remsen Avenue. Although the immediate area around the track
is industrial, with new retail going in around the corner and plenty
of residential just a block north, it would probably be a good spot
for a new station.
The Remsen Avenue Bridge (BIN 7702720) is an 53-foot steel girder
span. Despite the nameplate listing construction in 1906, the NBI
lists it as being built in 1907. Note the vaulted ceiling sections
distinguishing it from the steel stringer bridges to the east.
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Remsen Avenue bridge viewed from the south |
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Remsen Avenue bridge |
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Clandestine path up to the tracks on the south side |
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Cables running through conduit under the bridge |
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BIN 7702720 |
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Another clandestine path up to the tracks on the north side |
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Remsen Avenue bridge viewed from the North |
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Former station location? |
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East 91st Street dead ends into the tracks |
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Clandestine path up to the tracks |
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Milliken Brothers, 1906 |
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Wendy's on Ditmas Avenue |
The Railroad Playground at East 92nd Street and Ditmas Boulevard was originally named
the Ditmas Playground. A 1997 renovation took a design motif and new name from the nearby train
tracks and terminal market.
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Railroad Playground |
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Railroad Playground |
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Railroad Playground |
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Row houses on East 92nd Street |
The East 92nd Street Bridge (BIN 7702710) is a steel girder bridge. Although
I can't find an NBI entry for it, it presumably dates from the same time as
the adjacent bridges ca. 1906.
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East 92nd Street Bridge viewed from the north |
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East 92nd Street Bridge |
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Bridge abutment |
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Vaulted ceiling |
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Old wooden conduit on the south side of the bridge |
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BIN 7702710 |
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Sketchy retaining wall |
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Optimum Cable microwave tower |
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Optimum Cable satellite dish |
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Old guard dog warning sign |
The East 94th Street Bridge (BIN 7702700) is a steel girder bridge built in 1906.
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East 94th Street Bridge viewed from the south |
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BIN 7702700 |
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Milliken Brothers, 1906 |
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East 94th Street Bridge viewed from the north |
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Irving Scrap Metals - Ditmas Avenue |
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Row houses on East 95th Street north of tracks |
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Scrap metal yard |
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Rockaway Parkway split by the tracks |
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Rockaway Parkway headed north |
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Local Concrete - Ditmas Avenue |
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Local Concrete |
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Royal Baltic - triangular-shaped building on 9829 Ditmas |
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Transmissions Rebuilt / Repaired - Chester at Ditmas |
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No, actually it's just a warehouse |
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More car wrecks |
The Rockaway Avenue Bridge (BIN 7702680) is a 68-foot steel stringer span
listed in the NBI as being built in 1906, although the nameplate appears to date 1908.
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Rockaway Avenue Bridge - viewed from the north |
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Rockaway Avenue Bridge |
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BIN 7702680 |
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Rockaway Avenue Bridge - viewed from the south |
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Milliken Bros., 1908 |
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