| The NY Connecting RR and Bay Ridge Branch-owned at various times by both the LIRR and New Haven-snaked its way through Queens and Brooklyn, connecting the Hell Gate Bridge with the Brooklyn waterfront at 65th St in Bay Ridge. Some of it was on the surface, but it also tunneled through more congested parts of the city. One such place was in the East New York section of Brooklyn, where it went underground in the area near Broadway Junction, where Broadway, Atlantic Av and Fulton St converge. This was a busy place even in 1914 when the line was built, with elevated lines on Fulton, Broadway, and the Canarsie Line, as well as the LIRR on Atlantic Av. We look at the portal coming out from under Atlantic Av, with the BMT Canarsie Line(L train) overhead. The tunnel was built to handle four tracks; now only one is active. |