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Photo Gallery: Woodhaven/Cross Bay Blvd |
| We're just a few feet from North Conduit, but unseen here to the right is the remains of a road that has gone unseen by millions for who knows how many years. I have an old city map from the early 1970's that doesn't even mention it. Forgotten-NY's Kevin Walsh identified it as Jaegers Lane, and its demise as a real street probably stemmed from both the widening and grade raising of both Cross Bay and Conduit. It's abandonment couldn't go back as long as that, however, since the busted remains of a relatively modern luminaire still hangs off a utility pole just before Jaegers' end. |
| Completely unaware of the ghost street to their left, reams of motorists make their way south towards the Rockaways and Belt Pkwy. Let's hope no fire trucks need folks to get out of their way, since the sign urging them to is effectively blocked by late autumn leaves. |
| A little closer look. Those in the right lane have to turn at 153rd Avenue, into a small neighborhood of mostly garden apartments between The Conduits and Belt Pkwy called Lindenwood. Further past Lindenwood, before East New York in Brooklyn, a mostly unknown neighborhood sits called Ramblersville. Kevin Walsh's Forgotten-NY site has a section on it. Much of that area lies below current street grade. |
© 2001, Jeff Saltzman.
