The Bushwick, Evergreen, and Manhattan Beach Branches
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- I hope everyone had a great Christmas!! I know I said that this video wouldn't take 4 weeks but it did anyway. So to make up for that, I will be making a UA-cam short about a NYC Subway secret that I missed when I was making that series.
Great video. I'm from the neighborhood and have fond memories of these tracks.
re: my uncle and his friends always explored the Evergreen Branch in the 1950's when he was a kid. Mostly between Myrtle and Bay Ridge Branch interlocking. They called the Evergreen Branch "The Dummy Tracks".
This intersection was in the news when it became a SuperFund location about 8 years ago. Turns out one of the factories was used to make nuclear material for "The Manhattan Project".
Supposedly Budweiser Beer was one of the main freight customers on the Evergreen.
The Evergreen still maintained grade crossings between Myrtle and Flushing Aves and I remember them well. Specifically I remember them around Hart, and Suydam but none around Himrod or Gates. Some of the guys on Subchat are from the area and have photos.
Love this video. Love love this video. Covering the bushwick branch. My neighborhood is right there. Thank you!!
I had been to a concert at the Knockdown Center in Maspeth and I was amazed to hear a train go by behind the building. This would have been near where the railroad crosses 54th St. This is the Bushwick branch I believe.
Used to live right next door to that center you get trains every night
Well done. However, here is another point of interest. The Evergreen branch was supposed to be an extension of the Brooklyn and Rockaway Beach RR (Canarsie Line) when it terminated at Van Sinderen and New York Avenue (East New York Depot). The Canarsie RR intended to go into Hunters Point from the ENY Depot but never took the option. Had it done so, it would have called itself the Hunters Point and Rockaway Beach RR. Instead it opted to go east on Atlantic Avenue and terminate at the Howard House at Alabama Avenue. I think this was because it too could not get the right of way into LIC because of the LIRR and the Flushing and South Side RR right of way blocking it.
Great job, however I just recently discovered that the Brooklyn and Rockaway Beach Railroad aka the Canarsie Railroad had a survey taken in the late 1860's intending on extending their line from Van Sinderen and New York Ave to Hunters Point but instead changed their rout to Atlantic Ave and Alabama Ave, by the old Howard Hotel. In later years, the Manhattan Beach Railroad excersised the Canarsie Railroads option but could not get access to Hunters Point because of blockage by the Long Island Railroad. Thus having to go to Buschwick Depot instead.
When I visited Maspeth a few years ago, I saw those first tracks crossing Flushing Avenue. Never thought there was more history to it.
oh wow @7:30 that's awesome! I took a pic a bunch of years ago of that staircase that leads to the wall there. great to finally have found an explanation for its origin!
More evidence of the Manhattan Beach branch exists, in the extra long abutments of each bridge crossing a lettered avenue. Also, some of the side streets, e.g. E 17th St, are a bit wider than the usual 50'. Before the grade separation of the Manhattan Beach, Brighton, and Bay Ridge lines in 1908, all these trains ran at ground level. So E 17th is a bit wider to accommodate the old at-grade Manhattan Beach branch. See Art Huneke's website for pictures and blueprints before & after the grade separation project.
Great work.
Yes those tracks are there at Halsey an cooper til date
Do the Getty Square branch that split after the Van Cortland Park station that headed to Getty Square!
i used to work at a warehouse on Morgan Ave right by the Bushwick branch about 7 years ago , i've always wondered if it was an old unused passenger line.
Interesting History! Thank you! And all this time, I thought LIRR succeeded it ownership to the Brighton Line to BMT.
The BMT shoulda bought the entire Evergreen branch from the river to the Bay Ridge branch, put it in a trench like the Sea Beach branch, and put it on a viaduct over Newton Creek.
Ave J,M,U had a similar slab like neck road. But they were all repurposed or taken down.
The Subway BMT obliterated the usefulness of the Manhattan beach branch and the Evergreen branches today they are the L and B/Q trains. The bushwick branch can become a good line with fewer stops if it puts the S4 street shell to use and does what the IND 2nd system wants to an extent
Unlike other abandoned railroad lines I feel would have heavy usage today if they were still here, the Bushwick branch would have little to none as the areas it goes to is very industrial.
Unless it extends to Manhattan
Do a video on the Newtown Creek Long Island Railroad crossing. It actually crosses Morgan Avenue in Brooklyn New York to a rather large freight yard. We as kids used to play in the CN PLUS Boxcars.
Remember that day well used to live at 5401 flushing av maspeth ny
It was 2 nuns if I remember correctly
@@joes2085 2 nuns and a rabbi
This guy kind of sounds like Jimmy junior from Bob’s Burgers.
I liked your video. Could you tell me from your maps or other information where the Evergreen branch terminated on the East River? This was, as you say, abandoned. I'm sure no small remnant of the branch exists. But I live in Greenpoint and am interested.
I'll answer my own question -- the Evergreen branch terminated on the north side of the Bushwick inlet. The terminal building was on Quay St. (street south of Cayler St.). Quay is a small street leading off Franklin St. Today, the area where the tracks would have been (between Quay and the inlet) is wooded and fenced off. A No Trespassing sign is prominent, and I'd obey it. All thick with vegetation and who knows what. On Quay St., where the station would have been, there is now a modern brick building belonging to the Division of Station Operations and the transit system mobile wash unit. .
check the secrets of the nyc subway stations which are the mezzanine’s
If I open this caption why is there a nonsense captions
Pretty soon it'll no longer be abandoned because the light rail will be taking over