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Between the 1970s and 1990s, freight traffic into Long Island City also decreased, [14] [15] and in the 1990s, the MTA ceased freight operations with the sale of the LIRR's freight division to the New York and Atlantic Railway. [16] As a result, the Montauk Cutoff saw less use and began to fall into disrepair. [14]
In 2003, the LIRR and Metro-North started a pilot program in which passengers traveling within New York City were allowed to buy one-way tickets for $2.50. [94] The special reduced-fare CityTicket, proposed by the New York City Transit Riders Council, [94] was formally introduced in 2004. [95]
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The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system that serves four of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. state of New York: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens. Its predecessors—the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), and the Independent Subway System (IND)—were ...
Montauk Branch: Suffolk: 1895 14 East New York City Terminal Zone (Atlantic Branch) Brooklyn: 1878 1 East Rockaway Long Beach Branch: Nassau: 1880 7 East Williston Oyster Bay Branch: Nassau: 1880 4 Elmont Hempstead Branch Nassau: 2021-2022 ‡ 4 Far Rockaway Far Rockaway Branch: Queens: 1869 4
The Bushwick Branch, also called the Bushwick Lead Track, is a freight railroad branch in New York City. It runs from the East Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn to Fresh Pond Junction in the Glendale neighborhood of Queens , where it connects with the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road .
Woodhaven Junction is one of two stations on the abandoned Rockaway Beach Branch still standing (the other being Ozone Park), [1] [12] while the underground Atlantic Branch station is still visible from passing trains. The now-abandoned LIRR substation is present on the south side of Atlantic Avenue west of the elevated line. [1]
The New York and Flushing continued to own the line west of Winfield, and the Hunter's Point to Haberman portion soon became the South Side Railroad's access to Long Island City. The Flushing and Woodside was merged into the Flushing and North Side in 1871, and its line was abandoned in favor of the ex-New York and Flushing line.