Community Workshop Will Reimagine the Future of East New York Train Station
Share your vision for a bit of East New York history at a community workshop designed to spark ideas...
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City Council Greenlights Housing Over Borough Park Rail Line
The ambitious Brooklyn Yards development plan, an engineering feat that will build housing over an a...
Ambitious Apartment Project Above Borough Park Rail Line, Possible IBX Site, Seeks Rezoning
In what will be a design, engineering, and financing feat if it goes ahead, a 14-building, largely m...
A Decoration Day Disaster: The Grisly 1897 Tally-Ho Accident
Editors note: This post originally ran in 2015 and has been updated. You can read the previous post ...
Dozens Injured as LIRR Train Derails at Atlantic Terminal Wednesday Morning
A Long Island Railroad train derailed at Brooklyn's Atlantic Terminal this morning around 8:20 a.m.,...
A Shattered Stuy Heights Community Picks Up the Pieces of the Grisly 1897 Tally-Ho Disaster, Part 2
On Memorial Day 1897, a group of young adults from Stuyvesant Heights’ Green Avenue Baptist Ch...
In 1897, a Tally-Ho Ride From Stuyvesant Heights to Long Island Went Horribly Wrong, Part 1
Read Part 2 of this story. On May 31, 1897, Decoration Day, a group of young adults from the ...
Sunnyside Yard: It’s the Busiest Rail Junction in the U.S.
The ironic thing is that you can't catch a train here. Yet. The Sunnyside Yard opened in 1910, an...
Where are the best places to check out the Queensway / Rockaway Beach Rail Line?
Which way the Queensway will go is still uncertain. We're of course hoping that whatever gets done (...
An alternate plan to the Queensway – reactivating the line as a working rail line
The LIRR line in question, when it was active After hearing about the feasibility study RFPs issu...
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