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DeKalb Avenue Shop
DeKalb Avenue Shop
[Dekalb Shop, Queens, NY]
Dekalb Shop, Queens, NY. Westward view of a water tower, cars, buildings, men, and multiple trolley cars and electric buses. Caption on the negative reads, "De Kalb Shop Looking W. from Depot."
IMAGE DATE1946
DeKalb Avenue Shop, 1946.
The transportation facility was originally built in the early 20th as a trolley barn for the Brooklyn City Railroad (which later became a part of the BMT system). When the three transit systems were merged in 1940, the car barns and maintenance facilities came under city control. In April 1949 the complex became a coach repair shop. Today, the area is an athletic field.
