Haberman station explained

Style:LIRR
Haberman
Address:56-50 49th Street (approximate)
Coordinates:40.7258°N -73.9184°W
Line:Montauk Branch
Owned:Long Island Rail Road
Platform:2 side platforms
Tracks:2
Opened:September 1892
Closed:March 16, 1998
Electrified:August 29, 1905
Other Services Header:Services

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 in September 1892 (by some accounts[2] effectively replacing Laurel Hill station, which had until then been situated only a short distance to west) 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.[1] 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,[5] 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.[5]

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.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Seyfried, Vincent F. . The Long Island Rail Road: A Comprehensive History . https://web.archive.org/web/20150419021259if_/http://digitalarchives.queenslibrary.org/vital/access/services/Download/aql:340/SOURCE1?view=true#page=304 . 2015-04-19 . 6: The Golden Age 1881–1900 . Station List. 266 . Garden City, New York . self-published . 1975 . 192099519 . 61-17477 . pdf . . aql:340 .
  2. Web site: March 2006 . Arthur John Huneke . HP&SSRR . aRRt's aRRchives . 2024-10-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240415020537/https://arrts-arrchives.com/HPSSRR.html . 2024-04-15 . 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..
  3. Web site: Isaac . Schultz . The Brief, Baffling Life of an Accidental New York Neighborhood . Atlas Obscura . October 15, 2019 . September 25, 2023 .
  4. Web site: digitized photograph. 1910 . Looking west at Haberman station in 1910 . aRRt's aRRchives: HP&SSRR . 2024-10-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071030160217/http://www.arrts-arrchives.com/images2/hpss1lhsm.JPG . 2007-10-30 . JPEG.
  5. Web site: AECOM, USA . Lower Montauk Branch Passenger Rail Study . New York City Department of Transportation . January 2018 . 2020-07-17 .
  6. News: Sengupta . Somini . End of the Line for L.I.R.R.'s 10 Loneliest Stops . The New York Times . March 15, 1998 . 2009-08-07.
  7. News: Mike . Sugerman . Sweet Spot: Unraveling The Mystery Of Haberman, Queens . . November 15, 2019 . 2020-07-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20200719071427/https://wcbs880.radio.com/articles/news/what-and-where-haberman-queens. 2020-07-19.

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