Haberman station
Haberman | |||||||||||
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 Site of the former station | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Rust and 50th Streets Maspeth, Queens, New York | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°43′33″N 73°55′06″W / 40.725844°N 73.918377°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Long Island Rail Road | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Montauk Branch | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | September 1892 | ||||||||||
| Closed | March 16, 1998 | ||||||||||
| Electrified | August 29, 1905 | ||||||||||
| Former services | |||||||||||
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Haberman was a station along the Long Island Rail Road's Lower Montauk Branch that was located at the intersection of Rust Street and 50th Street in Maspeth, Queens.[1] The station is named after the Haberman Steel Enamel Works in Berlin Village.[1]
Haberman opened as a station for the convenience of workmen in September 1892; service was furnished by the Long Island City-East New York Rapid Transit trains. There never was a station building.[1] The station still had manual railroad crossing gates and a guard shack as recently as 1973. It was closed on March 16, 1998 along with Penny Bridge, Fresh Pond, Glendale and Richmond Hill stations;[2] average daily westbound ridership at the station in 1997 was 3.[3] In January 2018, Haberman was one of 8 stations on the Lower Montauk Branch that were recommended for reopening in a study sponsored by the New York City Department of Transportation.[3]
On some maps Haberman mistakenly appears as the name of a neighborhood.[4]
References
- ^ a b c Seyfried, Vincent F. (1966). The Long Island Rail Road: A Comprehensive History. Vol. 6: The Golden Age 1881 – 1900. Garden City, New York. p. 266. OCLC 192099519 – via Queens Public Library.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Sengupta, Somini (March 15, 1998). "End of the Line for L.I.R.R.'s 10 Loneliest Stops". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
- ^ a b AECOM, USA (January 2018). "Lower Montauk Branch Passenger Rail Study" (PDF). New York City Department of Transportation. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
- ^ Sugerman, Mike (November 15, 2019). "Sweet Spot: Unraveling The Mystery Of Haberman, Queens". WCBS 880. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
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