CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Approaching Brooklyn College Passing Glenwood Road (above left) and Utica Avenue (right) we passed some large tanks owned by Favorite Plastics, a manufacturer of polyethylene film. Glenwood Road, and Albemarle, Beverl(e)y, Clarendon, Dorchester and Farragut, were once lettered, but several decades ago real estate developers though they’d sound better with sophisticated, vaguely British monikers. [...]
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LONG DARK ROAD. The Bay Ridge LIRR branch, Part Two
March 29, 2009Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: Brooklyn Long Island RR NY & Atlantic RR Queens
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LONG DARK ROAD. The Bay Ridge LIRR branch
March 29, 2009
As Forgotten New York begins its second decade (and at your webmaster’s age, I hope there are a a few more decades to go) I lined up something extra special that I didn’t think I would be able to do without a lot of walking and climbing — an exploration of the old Long Island Rail [...]
Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: Brooklyn Long Island RR NY & Atlantic RR Queens
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LIKE A ROLLING WHITESTONE
October 14, 2001Imagine boarding the Long Island Railroad at Penn Station or Woodside and traveling east on the Port Washington Branch. After leaving the Shea Stadium platform, the train does notgo east past Main Street, Murray Hill, Broadway and the other stations of the branch, but rather veers northeast along the Flushing River; northwest near the old Flushing Airport; [...]
Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: abandoned rail routes College Point Flushing Long Island RR Queens Whitestone