Fromto to Today’s adventures took me from walking over both the George Washington bridge and the Bayonne and on the Staten Island Ferry. The day began a little after 9am with me leaving home and walking over the GWB to catch the NJT Bus Route 181 to Bergenline Ave on the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail. The […]
Here the only four stations in Nassau County on the Port Washington Branch: Port Washington–(20 photos), Plandome–(29 photos), Manhasset–(22 photos), and Great Neck–(31 photos of the station and 4 of artwork)
rom my trip on Monday, I think the title line sums up the main portion of the Port Washington Branch as it wends its way through Queens stopping at the quite urban feeling Flushing and Murray Hill Stations; Broadway, Auburndale, and Bayside in between, and the extremely suburban, historic houses district Douglaston and Little Neck Stations in the east. This update is all of those stops, easily accessed by City Ticket on the LIRR’s most New York-centric (and until the recent service cuts most frequent, every half-hour during weekday middays) line: Douglaston–(23 photos), Little Neck–(31 photos), Bayside–(29 photos and 3 of artwork), Auburndale–(17 photos), Broadway–(Page Rebuilt with 32 new photos of the renovated station, plus two of artwork), Murray Hill–(11 photos), Flushing Main Street–(18 Photos Added)
Today was the last day of my weekly Unlimited Ride MetroCard and I think I got most of my monies worth from it. Here is the rest of my week in recap. Thursday: Was a day of me forgetting my camera so I got practically nothing done. It began on the 1 train to 207 […]
First it was a trip down to Brooklyn to Jay Street–(3 photos). I then continued for some final photos of the temporary platform that can only hold four-car G trains at Smith-9th Street–(17 photos) before that station is closed for almost a year on June 20. Next I got on a R68! (since when?) G […]
Here are two new stations that make the connectivity of completed sections much better: 96 Street/Broadway–(page rebuilt with 52 photos!), and 125 Street/Lexington Avenue–(page rebuilt with 15 photos of the station, 11 of one art installation, and 4 of the other)
Well to start, this morning I finished off two stations from my Amtrak trip east, Washington I’m still figuring out the best way to address and might wait until I take a trip there sometime soon to really get the metro: Pittsburgh, PA–(6 photos added) Cumberland, MD–(20 photos) After being out for most of the […]
Today I had about 4 hours between a lunch time commitment in Lower Manhattan and a dinner time commitment and no access to an Unlimited ride MetroCard (damn no more fun passes, I don’t want to by a monthly or a weekly to force my self to spend more time working on the computer side […]
Here are the stations I had the pleasure of photographing during my train trip east, I’ve also finally created some station to station click tables (like what most other systems now have) in the style of the new Amtrak standardized signage that has been popping up at so many smaller stations (you can now click […]
Well I’m finally back in New York as of last night after 50 hours taking a Greyhound Bus, the California Zephyr, the Capital Limited, and a 9 car sold-out evening of Memorial Day train back to New York from Colorado Springs. The purpose of this trip was to move, after I graduation from Colorado Springs […]