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Originally Posted by M II A II R II K
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hmm, it would've been interesting if they had built the el subways over the sidewalks instead of down the middle of the streets, but too expensive of course.
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Originally Posted by M II A II R II K
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robert moses wanted to build a new bridge from brooklyn to downtown manhattan like you see on the second vision,
but he got pushed back by downtowners, a rarity for a moses scheme, and the battery tunnel was built instead.
that other older bridge, which i take is from staten island to manhattan, would have truly been a ridiculous folly.
even the verrazano is probably less than half the distance of that one, plus it would have disrupted shipping.