Re:Re: (erielack) Tad's Steaks (in NYC)

["Janet & Randy Brown" <jananran_@_mymailstation.com>]

Thanks, Jim,

For bolstering my faint memory of the moving sidewalk. For me to remember it, it might have been there earlier -- say 1948?

I could walk faster.

Randy Brown
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Walt,

PATH renamed this "Newport" after "Pavonia-Newport" after  "Pavonia" after "Erie-Pavonia" after "Erie."



Some will remember the pioneering moving sidewalk that the  Erie/H&M installed in the early 1950s -- although, as you  say, the idea of rolling those cable reels around might be  daunting, but it didn’t stop vandals from taking the 
moving-sidewalk motor out and rolling it down onto the 
tracks, attempting to derail a PATH train one night.

Until the start of redevelopment of the area after sale of  property by the [post conveyance] EL Corp., the mezzanine  was there al the way to the former under-track concourse.  About 1967, I walked through and up to the former Erie 
station platforms. This was very interesting, filled with 
trash and debris, but open to the public nonetheless.

For some years, the station was closed altogether nights and  weekends, but with the redevelopment, both platforms are now  in use again and busy, 24/7.

But the "E" remains in the support posts on the platform.

Cheers,
Jim Guthrie
ELHS #1296 



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