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" [...] in the world of people who obsess over
abandoned subway stations, the fierce debate over
whether 76th Street exists has transformed it into
transit Atlantis. For decades, the station has been
rumored to sit just to the east of the Euclid Avenue
station, part of a grand, never-realized plan to
continue the A line out to 229th Street in Cambria
Heights, where the subway is now only a distant rumor.
The station cannot be found on any map, however, nor
can it be reached by any train. 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 subway grates, that anything lies
below. Some swear they have been inside the station —
or, more accurately, they swear they have talked to
others who swear they have been inside it. But
apparently these explorers have never returned with
pictures. And so that leaves true believers, chief
among them a retired transit worker and police officer
from Queens named Steve Krokowski, in a decidedly
lonely minority. So lonely, in fact, that during a
recent exchange on a Web site for subway buffs —
www.nycsubway.org — many doubted the existence of not
only the subway station but also of Mr. Krokowski
himself. Perhaps, they suggested, his whole account of
the station's existence was part of an elaborate ruse,
worthy of Thomas Pynchon or Chuck Barris. Perhaps even
the name itself was a subtle hint: Krokowski . . .
crock? [...] "

Next Stop, 'Twilight Zone' (a k a 76th St. Station)
New York Times, January 21, 2003 
By RANDY KENNEDY

<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/21/nyregion/21TUNN.html>


-Doug







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