B.R.T. Accident At Malbone Street In Brooklyn

[EE Broadway Local]

It was the worst accident in our subway history: Ninety-seven passengers left us when a five car wooden el train operated by B.R.T. train dispatcher Edward Luciano (identified as Anthony Lewis, 29) crashed in the tunnel near Prospect Park station at 6:42pm on November 1, 1918.

 

Malbone Street was renamed Empire Boulevard after the accident and only a short, one block section remains between Clove Road and New York Avenue. The modern Brighton Line between DeKalb Avenue and Prospect Park opened on August 1, 1920 and the former route between Fulton Street and Prospect Park was converted to the Franklin Avenue Shuttle.

 

Reprint of the New York Times article on the Malbone Street B.R.T. accident, November 2, 1918, courtesy of nycsubway.org: http://www.nycsubway.org/articles/malbone01.html

[uptown164]

It was the worst accident in our subway history: Ninety-seven passengers left us when a five car wooden el train operated by B.R.T. train dispatcher Edward Luciano (identified as Anthony Lewis, 29) crashed in the tunnel near Prospect Park station at 6:42pm on November 1, 1918.

 

Malbone Street was renamed Empire Boulevard after the accident and only a short, one block section remains between Clove Road and New York Avenue. The modern Brighton Line between DeKalb Avenue and Prospect Park opened on August 1, 1920 and the former route between Fulton Street and Prospect Park was converted to the Franklin Avenue Shuttle.

 

Reprint of the New York Times article on the Malbone Street B.R.T. accident, November 2, 1918, courtesy of nycsubway.org: http://www.nycsubway.org/articles/malbone01.html

 

Is that same sharp curve still there

[Kamen Rider]

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[Bill from Maspeth]

Is that same sharp curve still there

Yes.

 

Not used for regular service tho. It's on the Franklin shuttle. If the train ever comes in on the wall on the CI side of PPk station, you'll ride through it.