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.[2] The station is named after the Haberman Steel Enamel Works in Berlin village.[2]
Haberman | |||||||||||
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General information | |||||||||||
Location | 56-50 49th st (approximate)[1] | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
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Haberman opened in September 1892[2] to serve the Haberman Manufacturing Company;[3] service was furnished by the Long Island City-East New York Rapid Transit trains. Around 1910 the station had low-level wooden platforms[4], but there never was a station building.[2] 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;[5] average daily westbound ridership at the station in 1997 was 3.[1] In January 2018, Haberman was one of 8 stations on the Lower Montauk Branch that were considered for reopening in a study sponsored by the New York City Department of Transportation.[1]
On some maps, presumably as a result of error in digitizing a USGS map, Haberman mistakenly appears as the name of a neighborhood, corresponding to an industrialized area of Maspeth.[6] Google Maps removed the name in 2019.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b c AECOM, USA (January 2018). "Lower Montauk Branch Passenger Rail Study" (PDF). New York City Department of Transportation. Retrieved July 17, 2020.
- ^ a b c d Seyfried, Vincent F. (1975). "Station List". The Long Island Rail Road: A Comprehensive History (pdf). Vol. 6: The Golden Age 1881–1900. Garden City, New York: self-published. p. 266. LCCN 61-17477. OCLC 192099519. Archived from the original on April 19, 2015 – via Queens Public Library.
- ^ a b Schultz, Isaac (October 15, 2019). "The Brief, Baffling Life of an Accidental New York Neighborhood". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved September 25, 2023.
- ^ "Looking west at Haberman station in 1910". aRRt's aRRchives: HP&SSRR (digitized photograph). 1910. Archived from the original (JPEG) on October 30, 2007. Retrieved October 2, 2024.
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- ^ Sengupta, Somini (March 15, 1998). "End of the Line for L.I.R.R.'s 10 Loneliest Stops". The New York Times. Retrieved August 7, 2009.
- ^ Sugerman, Mike (November 15, 2019). "Sweet Spot: Unraveling The Mystery Of Haberman, Queens". WCBS 880. Archived from the original on July 19, 2020. Retrieved July 17, 2020.
External links
edit- Robert W. Andersen, Unofficial LIRR History Website (archived from the original on October 12, 1991)
- Images of remains of the station, late 1990s (archived from the originals):
- Arthur John Huneke, Arrt's Arrchives: images of the station