WHY show this example of tiled signage at the IND Smith-9th Street station, serving F and G trains? Well, they’re placed in sort of unique circumstances. The Independent Subway was…

It has been awhile since I covered or even mentioned the lost Long Island Rail Road Evergreen Branch in Bushwick; not since 2000, a good 26 years now, in fact.…

THE main branch of the Long Island Railroad runs east-west through the heart of Queens, exiting the borough into Nassau County in Bellerose. The railroad also diverges into two branches…

Forgotten Fan Steve Stein passes along an image of an IND-style subway exit stanchion, marked by red glass, and some railing at a place where no exit can be found,…

ALTHOUGH I am a loyal (dues-paying) member of the NYC Transit Museum on Schermerhorn Street, I have not been able to visit since January 2020, just before the pandemic. The…

HERE’S the Richmond Hill LIRR elevated station on the Long Island Rail Road Lower Montauk Branch in 1997. When in the next year I heard this line would be mostly…

WAY back in 1999, or it could have been 1998, I obtained this shot from the pedestrian boardwalk above what is now called the Mets-Willets Point station on the Port…

I have not done enough pieces about Queens, my adopted borough, lately. Some pages are in the offing. In September I walked in eastern Flushing and Auburndale, getting some photos…

THERE are some parts of town I’m in but rarely, and Port Morris in the Bronx, located east of the Triboro Bridge/Bruckner Expressway from East 132nd to East 141st, is…

As many NYC railbuffs (but a decreasing number of them) remember, the last NYC subways grade crossing was way out at the far southeast of Brooklyn in Canarsie, at the…

I have never gotten a real handle on the Long Island Rail Road Brooklyn branch, which runs from Jamaica west to Flatbush Avenue. I’m surprised the LIRR has retained it,…

EVERY time I take the Long Island RR from my home in Little Neck into the City, I enjoy the views I have of Sunnyside Yards, which the tracks travel…