TIRED of the unrelenting dead canine humidity of NYC summer? It’s humid and getting humider, year after year. Here’s a winter 2021 view of Station Road along the Long Island Rail Road in Flushing. Station and Depot Roads are so named because they abut the LIRR Broadway station; Station Road also runs past the Auburndale station (see below). On this page, I’m not going to overly concentrate on the Broadway station, because I’ve already done a comprehensive page on it; Broadway was my home station for 14 years, and after I moved to Little Neck, it was completely rehabilitated from its decrepit condition to the pleasant suburban station we see today. It has entrances/exits on Northern Boulevard and 164th Street onto both Station and Depot Roads. The station is far from Queens’ Broadway, which today is in Astoria and Elmhurst; until 1920 or so, Northern Boulevard was called Broadway from the Flushing River to the city line, and the neighborhood surrounding it was developed in the early 20th Century as Broadway-Flushing.
Why am I drawn to these two roads? It’s partly nostalgia: I lived in the eastern Flushing/western Auburndale neighborhood they are in for 14 years between 1993 and 2007. In 2021 I surveyed the two roads following a snowstorm, which I hope we get a few of in 2024-2025.
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8/2/24