Haberman was a station along the

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Lower Montauk Branch The Montauk Branch is a rail line owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York. The branch runs the length of Long Island, 115 miles (185 km) from Long Island City on the west to Montauk on the east. Howeve ...

that was located at the intersection of Rust Street and 50th Street in Maspeth, Queens. The station is named after the Haberman Steel Enamel Works in Berlin Village. 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. 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,

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and Richmond Hill stations; average daily westbound ridership at the station in 1997 was 3. 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. On some maps, Haberman mistakenly appears as the name of the neighborhood which the station was located, which on maps was referred to an industrialized area of Maspeth bounded by Grand Avenue to the south, 56th Road to the east, the Kosciusko Bridge carrying the

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to the north and the

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to the west.

References

External links

Unofficial LIRR History Website

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Former Long Island Rail Road stations in New York City Railway stations in Queens, New York Railway stations in the United States opened in 1892 Railway stations closed in 1998 1892 establishments in New York (state) 1998 disestablishments in New York (state) Maspeth, Queens {{QueensNY-railstation-stub