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The Long Island Rail Road has recently abandoned a number of stations In Queens and Nassau. Many of these stations are along the Montauk Branch between Jamaica and Long Island City. These unelectrified tracks are stilll used for freight and for express Jamaica-LIC service for a few runs during the week. LIRR buff Robert Anderson has an [...]
Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: Brooklyn Queens
On this page we’ll show you a couple of ancient signs that pointed you to the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad, as well as a few ancient oddities that can’t be classified in any one section. This tiled sign points to the PATH train in the IND station at 14th Street and Sixth Avenue. The PATH, which stands for [...]
The Bronx is usually thought to be the most urban of New York’s five boroughs. However, several areas in NYC’s only mainland borough belie that notion… Title card: This view of the Hudson River is available just south of the Riverdale Metro-North Station. The Palisades of New Jersey are visible across the Hudson. photo: Jon [...]
Categorized in: You'd Never Believe You're in NYC Tagged with: Bronx Riverdale Wave Hill
In New York City, between the golden age of cast-iron lampposts, approximately 1895 and 1950, and prior to the brave new world of green-white fluorescent bulbs (which held sway between 1960 and 1972, when super-bright yellow sodium bulbs took over) there was an interregnum of sorts, when old-style yellow incandescent lights were installed on modern, [...]
Categorized in: Street Lamps Tagged with: Bronx Brooklyn Cypress Hills Kew Gardens Manhattan Parkchester Queens Van Cortlandt Park
Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: Brighton Line Brooklyn elevated
Southern Brooklyn still has a number of its ancient routes preserved as hardly-surviving dirt roads and alleys. Today’s Brooklynites probably do not know that these roads existed for centuries, ever since the first Dutch settlements in the 1600s. What, you might ask, is so unusual about this intersection of Avenue Z and Jerome Avenue [...]
Categorized in: Alleys Roads Tagged with: Bath Beach Bay Ridge Brooklyn East Flatbush
