From 1951 to 1958 I lived on 74th Avenue just off Woodhaven Blvd. I went to PS 113 which was on the other side of the crossing at 88th St. Sometimes we had to wait for a freight on the way to school. There was a shanty at the crossing and the gates were manually lowered. That would have been 56-57 when I was in kindergarten and first grade.
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