Ferris Wheel at 242nd Street – Date?

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    • September 24, 2020 at 7:22 pm #1643
      ndembowski
      Keymaster

        The KHS account got a question on Twitter about the date of this photo and I thought I would crowd-source and answer.  Any ideas?  It might help to know when Broadway and the subway station were widened at 242nd Street.

      • September 24, 2020 at 7:43 pm #1644
        Dorothy Dewitz
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          NY Transit Museum website says 10/8/1908–

          “Survey photograph looking south at the 242nd Street Station on the IRT West Side / Seventh Avenue Line, two months after the opening of the station. The photograph shows a carnival, including a ferris wheel and carousel, being either put up or taken down.”

          https://nytm.pastperfectonline.com/photo/A209B96A-53BC-4279-BC14-748940256500

          Dorothy Dewitz

           

        • September 24, 2020 at 9:07 pm #1645
          Thomas Casey
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            Yes….The line opened  August 1, 1908…There is a nice color postcard I used in my book “Bronx Views”…a  B & W in my book, Northwest Bronx.  I think it lasted to 1917242nd and Broadway Ferris Wheel

          • September 24, 2020 at 11:56 pm #1646
            ndembowski
            Keymaster

              Thanks.  Unless I am mistaken that is a carousel behind the Ferris wheel.  The below photo was taken in April of 1908 so it was a pretty quick turn around for a completed station and amusement park.

            • September 25, 2020 at 5:54 am #1647
              Thomas Casey
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                Yes…and a band shell on top with a restaurantNorthwest Bronx - TX Casey

              • February 25, 2021 at 11:25 pm #1877
                Zach Youngerman

                  Former Pabst Van Cortlandt Park Hotel, partly burned, on the West Side of Broadway, 1924

                • February 25, 2021 at 11:26 pm #1878
                  Zach Youngerman

                    I guess it didn’t last long. The photo above is from a 1924 fire.

                  • September 3, 2025 at 6:04 pm #4995
                    jbakerjonathan
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                      The widening of Broadway beginning at W 239th Street north to about 6035 Broadway occurred circa 1952.
                      The carousel may have been constructed circa 1917-1920. This blow-up shows construction occurring to the extreme left viewed under the north stairs to the train station.  The photo is in the collection of the NY Public Library Digital Collection.

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