A closer
view of the large apartment buildings that line the north side of the ROW
between Ocean Parkway and Coney Island Avenue.
A couple of
nice houses line the south side of the right of way.
Throughout
the trip, the south side of the ROW has been lined with white and red pipes.
Closer inspection of the pipes yield the fact that there is a petroleum
line running underneath the south side of the ROW, directly below the service
road path.
Spare railroad ties and rails sit up along the edge of the trench wall.
Depending when this pipeline was installed, Cross-Brooklyn Expressway
engineers would have had to relocate the pipeline while they dug the trench
for the expressway. It's noted from nycroads.com that "substantial
relocation of a petroleum products distribution site" would need to be
accomplished during the building of the Cross-Brooklyn Expressway.
I wonder if this plant is the one that serves this pipeline.
Looking
west at The Coney Island Avenue overpass. From nycroads.com: "From
Nostrand Avenue to Brooklyn Avenue, the six-lane expressway would pass
through an area restricted on both sides by substantial existing and proposed
buildings." Nycroads.com also tells us that an interchange for Nostrand
Avenue and Flatbush Avenue would also be provided for the Cross-Brooklyn
Expressway.
Seeing how many buildings line the ROW in this area, and how narrow
the ROW is in this area, it would have been interesting to see how the
highway engineers would have constructed am interchange for Nostrand and
Flatbush Avenues! It doesn't appear that they would have had that
much space to work with!
Continuing
the journey along the ROW, heading towards Ocean Avenue.
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