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Category: Locations
Exploring location files
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Views from the tallest building in Queens
Citibank building in 2015 (on the left), the top gets lost in the clouds on rainy days…I watched this building rise while growing up, and as the years passed, the itch to get to the top of it grew stronger.
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Queens Subway Lofts: a Montauk Cutoff freight customer that never was.
The curious case of the building and miniature railroad that was planned next to the Montauk Cutoff, yet never built.
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Borden Avenue Bridge Reconstruction
In 2009, the borden avenue bridge in L.I.C. was in serious trouble.
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The Montauk Cutoff
There has been a ton of talk lately about what will become of the Montauk Cutoff. While the future remains unknown, its past is surprisingly more interesting than has thus far been reported.
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Jamaica Yard Leads & World’s Fair Connection
The tracks leading to Jamaica Yard under Queens Blvd. are a complex testament to the forward thinking applied to much of the construction of the old IND route lines.
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Training Tunnel & Layup
Deep in South Brooklyn, there is a 4 track subway tunnel that is very familiar to anyone who has performed contract work for the MTA.
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174th street Subway Yard
C train in the yardThe 174th street subway yard is a cavernous space under Washington Heights that is currently used to store C trains.
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137th street Subway Yard
The 137th street subway yard is one of the few subway yards built in NYC that is entirely underground. (more…)
