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Is there a source for this story? My 12th grade US history teacher. Circa 1973. I found a Wikipedia discussion, but it is by no means dispositive: https://en.

Is there a source for this story? My 12th grade US history teacher. Circa 1973. I found a Wikipedia discussion, but it is by no means dispositive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRT_Sixth_Avenue_Line#Allegations_demolition_scrap_was_sold_to_Japan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRT_Sixth_Avenue_Line#Allegati... The NY Times also touched on it: https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/11/nyregion/fyi-811695.html https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/11/nyregion/fyi-811695.html

dragonwriter 7y ago
> I found a Wikipedia discussion, but it is by no means dispositive: It seems fairly so on the claim that Japan bought the el, dismantled it, and shipped the steel home; it is less dispositive on the question of whether some of the steel either reached Japan or freed up other steel for shipment to Japan when it was dismantled by it's actual civic owners, who had no connection to Japan.