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Fulton Street El (site of)

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This elevated train line encouraged Brooklyn's settlement

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Borough : Brooklyn
Infrastructure, Transportation

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The open-web steel structure deemed "The Big Black Spider" enabled Brooklyn to expand during the Gilded Age. A short segment of the dismantled "El" was used as a pedestrian bridge from 1941 to 1998.

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