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The Brooklyn station designation was replaced by the Flatbush Avenue station on July 2, 1877. That same summer local Atlantic Avenue rapid transit trains began to stop there on August 13. [4] The old depot was renovated between July–August 1878, when it began serving the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railroad. It was rebuilt again in ...
The Cobble Hill Tunnel (also known as the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel) is an abandoned Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) tunnel beneath Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, New York City, running through the neighborhoods of Downtown Brooklyn and Cobble Hill. When open, it ran for about 2,517 feet (767 m) between Columbia Street and Boerum Place. [2]
The face of Atlantic Avenue east of Flatbush Avenue, the site designated for the Brooklyn Atlantic Yards, is defined by the LIRR tracks that run beneath (from Flatbush Avenue to Bedford Avenue), above (from Bedford Avenue to Dewey Place), and beneath again in East New York until Lefferts Boulevard in Queens.
Woodhaven Junction power substation. The current Atlantic Branch is the successor to two separate lines: the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad (opened 1836) along Atlantic Avenue from Flatbush Avenue to Jamaica, and the South Side Railroad of Long Island (opened 1867) from Jamaica to Valley Stream.
Named after Atlantic Avenue and the Barclays Center arena, it is located at Fourth and Flatbush Avenues' intersections with Atlantic Avenue and Pacific Street in Downtown Brooklyn. The complex is served by the 2 , 4 , D , N , Q and R trains at all times; the 3 train at all times except late nights; the 5 and B trains on weekdays during the day ...
Bob Diamond of the Brooklyn Historic Railway Association was known for the tours he conducted along and beneath Atlantic Avenue from the 1980s until 2010 (when the city said safety concerns meant ...
When the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad opened in April 1836, under lease to the LIRR, [4]: 44 it did not include a station at East New York. [5] The LIRR began stopping at East New York by early 1843, [6] eventually stopping at the Howard House at Alabama Avenue, shared with all the other horse car and steam lines into East New York. [7]
The city unveiled new plans for the long-planned rezoning of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn late Wednesday, but residents swiftly expressed concerns about getting pushed out of their own neighborhood ...