Haberman station
New York railroad station
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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 | |||||||||||
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The site of the former Haberman Station, on 49th Place south of Rust Street, facing east | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | 56-50 49th Street (approximate)[1] | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40.725844°N 73.918377°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Long Island Rail Road | ||||||||||
| Line | Montauk Branch | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | September 1892 | ||||||||||
| Closed | March 16, 1998 | ||||||||||
| Electrified | August 29, 1905 | ||||||||||
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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]
