3.5 digital LCD with a MAX reading of 1999 AC Digital Multimeter Electronic Clamp Meter

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Conventional urban history holds that the center track at Bedford-Nostrand Avs station along the IND Crosstown Line (G train) was built for a future continuation of the line down Lafayette Ave into Bushwick. While no official IND Second System plans were ever released showing such a line there was a provisional tack map drawn up in the early 1930s showing such a line continuing from Bedford-Nostrand along Lafayette Ave to Broadway and continuing up Stanhope St to Myrtle Ave where it would have connected to the IND Worth St-Myrtle Ave-Central Ave Line, presumably running out to Woodhaven, Queens.

The actual reason for a three track station, the only one along an entirely two track line, is for operational flexibility. The Crosstown Line was a compromise between two earlier unbuilt subways; the Lafayette Ave subway from downtown Brooklyn into Bushwick and the original Crosst own Line which would have run elevated from Long Island City to Prospect Heights and then along the Brighton Beach Line to Coney Island. Combining the two lines meant that ridership would have been unbalanced as commuters along Lafayette Ave would be heading downtown and riders along the north-south route would be connecting to existing Manhattan-bound lines. A third track at Bedford-Nostrand meant that in the event that one leg of the line needed more service trains could stop short and turn mid journey. This is how the line is used today anytime maintenance needs to be done on one section of the Crosstown Line. It was predicted that demand would be higher along Lafayette Ave so two terminal tracks were built heading east after the station but space was left at Classon Ave station for a future layup track should the north-south demand prove higher.

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At the East Broadway station on the F train are traces of another forgotten unbuilt subway, the Worth St Line, which would have been a branch of the 8 Ave subway, the A/C/E trains. The line would have branched off just south of Canal St and swung east under Worth St and then East Broadway before heading to Williamsburg. Originally this line was planned to run through Bushwick, Glendale, Ozone Park and on to southern Jamaica but this was truncated as time went on with new plans to connect the Worth St Line to Utica Ave. By the 1950s the line was scrapped all together. Had the line been built it would most likely meant that the city would have torn down the BMT Jamaica Line, the J/M/Z trains, as the new line would have covered much of the same route.

At East Broadway there is an extra mezzanine level (top photo) which left space for platforms to be added perpendicular to the e xisting platform. A lower mezzanine (middle photo) would be at track level for the new line. #nychistory #nycsubway #ind #indsecondsystem #mta #ftrain #eastbroadway #chinatown #worthstsubway #unbuilt #map #cartography #newyork (at East Broadway, Chinatown, New York City)