Title card photo by Peter Dougherty, whose Tracks of the NYC Subway’s new edition is available. THIS weekend is particularly busy with holiday stuff and freelance work, so I’ll do…
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UNTIL just recently, M3 electric-powered rail cars employed on the Long Island Rail Road, were still in use as delivery of new M9 cars was delayed. (As MTA subway cars…
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WANT to check out some NYC history but don’t want to ferret it out in a museum? Ride the subway instead. This plaque, designed by Jay Van Everen and located…
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As I’ve learned from decades of experience, there’s the right way to do things, and there’s the wrong way (of which I freely admit my occasional guilt) which is usually…
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In downtown Brooklyn, Flatbush, Atlantic Avenue, and 4th Avenue all come together at a triangle called Times Plaza after a newspaper, long defunct, that had its offices nearby. In 1908…
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I have always been fascinated with the High Line (or High Line Park), the linear park opened in stages beginning in 2009 on what was built in 1934 as the…
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THE Port Authority Trans-Hudson Railroad, or the PATH train, is NYC’s “other” subway, running under 6th Avenue, Christopher Street, Greenwich Street and Morton Street and from Church Street at the World…
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In November 2017, Thanksgiving to be exact, I embarked on one of my lengthiest forays, walking from Sunset Park to Maspeth. The family had informed me that the Thanksgiving stuff…
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HERE’S a look at the 168th Street elevated train platform in Jamaica sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s. We are probably looking at a fan trip as there…
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WITH proponents of the so-called QueensLink, a proposed rail line revival that would link subways or LIRR lines in Rego Park to a subway in Woodhaven, rallying once more at…
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THIS auto collision repair shop at #1552 McDonald Avenue near Avenue M in Midwood likely does not have a proprietor named Culver. Instead, it is found under the only elevated…
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THE original South Ferry station at the tip of Manhattan is a very complex operation that comprises no less than four separate platforms that serve, or served, the IRT 7th…