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#1 KevinKorell

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Posted 03 September 2010 - 09:40 PM

Brooklyn, NY Daily Eagle, 9/1/10:

BROOKLYN — Bob Diamond — the Flatbush transit buff whose discovery of the old Long Island Railroad tunnel under Atlantic Avenue and his tunnel tours were met with enthusiasm but whose efforts to revive trolleys in Red Hook were sidetracked — informed the Eagle Wednesday that he is retiring and leaving Brooklyn.

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Posted 23 June 2017 - 10:56 AM

 

 

Why a Green Line trolley has stopped permanently at the Brooklyn waterfront

 

There is a Green Line trolley from Boston parked permanently on the waterfront of Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood.

https://boston.curbe...rooklyn-trolley



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Posted 25 August 2021 - 01:38 AM

Brooklyn Paper, 8/24/21:

 


 

  BROOKLYN TUNNEL IMPRESARIO, TRANSIT ADVOCATE BOB DIAMOND DIES AT 62  

 

 

Transit advocate Bob Diamond, seen here pointing to a spot at the end of the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel where he believed a long-abandoned locomotive remained, died on Saturday, Aug. 21.

 

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