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Andy Byford

The Malbone Street Wreck–100 Years Later–And Its Victims at Green-Wood

November 6, 2018 by Jeff Richman

On Friday evening, November 1, 1918, a Brooklyn Rapid Transit subway train left the Park Row station in Manhattan, ran east across the East River, then south through Brooklyn. At 6:42 p.m., it crashed near the intersection of Malbone Street, Flatbush and Ocean Avenues; 93 people died and hundreds were injured. It was the deadliest … Read more

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