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- The best way to see where the station is (or, rather, isn’t) is Pitkin Ave between 76th and 77th Streets.
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Oct 7, 2022 · The best way to see where the station is (or, rather, isn’t) is Pitkin Ave between 76th and 77th Streets. If the true believers are right, you’re standing on top of a “transit Atlantis.”
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There are 2 tracks coming from the Pitkin Yard that points towards the direction of the 76th Street Station which were sealed up with cinderblock walls. Also note that the early 1940s subway maps labed 76th Street Station as "75th Street".
Sep 6, 2024 · Supposedly in urban lore, the 76th Street station was part of an extension of the A line to 229th Street in Cambria Heights, one of many proposed subway lines that never came to be.
Oct 19, 2011 · This is the 76th Street station, an urban fable kept alive by an old April Fools joke, some mysterious construction barriers and track maps that hint of an unbuilt subway extension. The 76th Street station itself is a mystery. If it exists, it would be found at the area of 76th Street and Pitkin Ave. in Queens.
Sep 2, 2008 · It's a urban legend. Here is an excellent page from forgotton ny of this interesting area. There are photos of the intersection of Pitkin Avenue and 76th Street: http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/borderlineeldert/borderlineeldert.html.
This is the 76th Street station, an urban fable kept alive by an old April Fools joke, some mysterious construction barriers and track maps that hint of an unbuilt subway extension. The 76th Street station itself is a mystery. If it exists, it would be found at the area of 76th Street and Pitkin Ave. in Queens.
Sep 2, 2008 · The 76th Street station was partially built with one side platform with four trackways, and an uncertain portion of another side platform. The station cannot be found on any subway or street maps. On the street where it is supposed to be, along Pitkin Avenue, just over the Brooklyn border into Queens, there are no traces of evidence, like ...
