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 88 sau Counties there were sixteen important roads crossed by the Central R.R., and all but three were planned to be crossed above or below grade. This added greatly to the cost of construction but added to the safety of the travelling public. The contracts for the stone work in all this bridging and tunneling amounted to $110,000, a sum which only a man like A. T. Stewart could pay without sober reflection. The crossings, to the extent that they are known, were planned as follows:

1 Lawrence Street, Flushing—Tunnel under road, actually built.

2. Fresh Meadow Road, Flushing—Tunnel under road, actually built.

3. Lawrence Lane (now Fiftieth Avenue) at 187th Street—A tunnel planned but never built.

4. Former North Hempstead Turnpike (at about Francis Lewis Boulevard)—Bridge planned but never built.

5. Hollis Court Boulevard (old Queens Avenue)—The old road formerly inside Cunningham Park has now been destroyed by the Clearview Expressway. Bridge planned over road but never built.

6. Seventy-third Avenue (old Black Stump Road)—Bridge planned but never built.

7. Old Granger Avenue—(Never fully laid out or opened; crossing about at present Bell Boulevard). Tunnel planned but never built.

8. Springfield Boulevard—Bridge over the railroad was built.

9. Jericho Turnpike—Iron bridge over the road was actually built.

10. Long Island R.R. crossing—Iron bridge over road actually built with heavy stone embankments.

In what has since become Nassau County, the other crossings were as follows:

11. Plainfield Avenue—Bridge over road planned, but never built.

12. Tanner's Pond Road—An iron bridge actually built.

13. Cherry Valley Road—Iron bridge actually built.

14. Road entering the Meadow Brook Club from the north (no longer existing)—Iron bridge built.