Haberman station

Haberman
the site of the former Haberman Station, on 49th Place south of Rust Street, facing east
General information
Location56-50 49th Street (approximate)[1]
Coordinates40°43′33″N 73°55′06″W / 40.725844°N 73.918377°W / 40.725844; -73.918377
Owned byLong Island Rail Road
Line(s)Montauk Branch
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
History
OpenedSeptember 1892
ClosedMarch 16, 1998
ElectrifiedAugust 29, 1905
Services
Preceding station Long Island Rail Road Following station
Laurel Hill
toward Long Island City
 Montauk Branch Maspeth
toward Montauk

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 opened in September 1892[2] (by some accounts[3] effectively replacing Laurel Hill station, which had until then been situated only a short distance to west) to serve the Haberman Manufacturing Company;[4] service was furnished by the Long Island City–East New York rapid-transit trains. Around 1910 the station had low-level wooden platforms,[5] but there never was a station building.[2] The station still had manual railroad crossing gates and a guard shack as recently as 1973. Average daily westbound ridership at the station in 1997 having been 3,[1] it was closed on March 16, 1998, along with Penny Bridge, Fresh Pond, Glendale, and Richmond Hill stations.[6] 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.[7] Google Maps removed the name in 2019.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c AECOM, USA (January 2018). "Lower Montauk Branch Passenger Rail Study" (PDF). New York City Department of Transportation. Retrieved July 17, 2020.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Arthur John Huneke (March 2006). "HP&SSRR". aRRt's aRRchives. Archived from the original on April 15, 2024. Retrieved October 4, 2024. LOOKING NORTH JUST SOUTH OF CLIFTON AVENUE (46th STREET) IN 1910. IN THE 1880'S AND UNTIL SEPTEMBER 1892, THIS WAS THE LOCATION OF LAUREL HILL STATION. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help)
  4. ^ a b Schultz, Isaac (October 15, 2019). "The Brief, Baffling Life of an Accidental New York Neighborhood". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved September 25, 2023.
  5. ^ "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. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help)
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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.
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