Mourning the Old Flatbush Terminal
Doesn’t this photo of the old Flatbush Avenue Terminal just make you want to cry? Kevin Walsh of Forgotten NY brought this photo (and the others on this website) to our attention. (That’s One Hanson aka the Williamsburgh Savings Bank in the background.) The passenger station opened in 1907 and was completely refurbished in the…
Doesn’t this photo of the old Flatbush Avenue Terminal just make you want to cry? Kevin Walsh of Forgotten NY brought this photo (and the others on this website) to our attention. (That’s One Hanson aka the Williamsburgh Savings Bank in the background.) The passenger station opened in 1907 and was completely refurbished in the 1940s; like many historic structures in Brooklyn, the terminal was allowed to deteriorate in the 1960s and 1970s and the Transit Authority tore it down in the mid-1980s. What a waste.
It’s a Dodge Dart Sport, either 72, 73(probably) or 74. I had a 73 Dart Sport. Great car. Had it from ’73 to ’85. The price: $3200 new.
or in haiku:
lost old terminal
don’t understand the bluster
bring back that duster
both the car and the building were dusters.
Let us mourn now the old Flatbush Terminal.
Although it was grubby and verminal,
Today’s Ratneresque pile
Maketh no one to smile
And its ghastly design makes us squirm and all.
You’re right, It is a Duster…I just couldn’t remember the name.
But I think Dave is also right- in that the duster and dart sport were a shared platform kind of deal so they would look alike for the portion of the car we can see in that pic.
But it’s definitely not a charger.
“Not the most brilliant work from 1907, but I’m sure it would have cleaned up nicely.”
It looked pretty nice in the pre-60’s photos.
“What do we get instead, courtesy of the Rat and the MTA? An ugly, tiny (because most of the space has been given over to his mall), decidedly un-welcoming space. And, as I discovered recently, one that is CLOSED to the public between 12 am – 5 am, because there is no longer any LIRR service to/from Brooklyn at all during those hours.”
This is why I always enter on Pacific.
I do agree with the lack of space in this new building. I wish there was a better connection to the retail area from the LIRR/NYCMTA part of the station. Even though Penn Station is hideous, I think that’s one of the better aspects of that station and the same with Grand Central in all it’s beautiful glory.
It’s a duster, as stated above- that particular placement of the vinyl roof seam gives it away. The vinyl roof dodges would mostly have the whole rood down to the trunk in vinyl.