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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]
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 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
New York and Hempstead Railroad: LIRR: 1871 1875 Southern Hempstead Branch Railroad: New York and Hempstead Plains Railroad: LIRR: 1870 1871 New York and Hempstead Railroad: New York, Housatonic and Northern Railroad: 1863 1881 Westchester Railway: New York and Jamaica Railroad: LI: 1859 1860 Long Island Rail Road: New York, Kingston and ...
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]
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.
Court Street was a former Rochester Industrial and Rapid Transit Railway station located in Rochester, New York.It was closed in 1956 along with the rest of the line. [2]The former station staircase up to Court Street, 2005