Over the years, we’ve published a few catty articles on this site that attacked some poorly thought out new transit ideas running through Queens. So let’s be clear: we need to build all of it.
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Category: Railroad
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Build Everything: Queens Needs Transit.
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Brooklyn’s long forgotten railroad, Part 2
LIRR railfan special passes under the present day M line on Myrtle Avenue on September 9th, 1956. Photo by Bill Rugen (via Steve Lynch’s LIRR history site, reposted w/permission)
Unless you ask a real old timer, most people in Ridgewood have no idea a railroad ran right through the middle of the neighborhood.
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Brooklyn’s long forgotten railroad, Part 1
1884 Route Map of the New York and Manhattan Beach railroad, showing the Greenpoint segment of track.
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LIC’s obscure, abandoned LIRR Bogies 2017, RIP
This past week, the LIRR finally began scrapping their abandoned bogies. So just what the hell is a bogie, anyway?
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Abandoned Coca-Cola Distribution Center & LIRR Glendale Junction, (Queens) NY
Examining the long forgotten history of a Central Queens industrial zone, with one abandoned warehouse in particular.
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Abandoned LIRR Woodhaven Blvd Station (Rockaway Beach Branch)
The Woodhaven blvd rockaway beach branch station is an important neighborhood piece of infrastructure that currently sits in ruins.
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Abandoned LIRR Rockaway Beach Branch – White Pot Junction
Where the hell is White Pot Junction?
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Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal (BEDT) – The abandoned years
The Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal (BEDT) was a small railroad located along the Brooklyn waterfront. Their property ran from N.4th street to North 11th street.
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Abandoned Ozone Park LIRR station & the giant spider that lived there
In 2002, Me, M, and a reporter climbed up onto the old LIRR Rockaway Beach tracks in Ozone Park.
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Abandoned LIRR Rockaway Beach Branch – Park Politics Edition
In Queens, a desperately needed transit option for multiple communities is under attack.
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