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Amtrak Long Island Rail Road

Finishing Riding the Long Island Railroad to Rhode Island

Merry Christmas! Well, regular life got in the way of the SubwayNut this past November and December, with a far too over committed second semester of graduate school. I finally finished yesterday. I am now starting on a month off for winter break and have a bunch of stuff I’m anxious to get up on […]

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Long Island Rail Road NYC Subway Superstorm Sandy

To Brooklyn via the LIRR and the F train via Jamaica, the only way to get to Brooklyn without riding a bus — The Subway Split, Part 2

This is the second post (Post 1) in a series of posts about completely split subway service (Map for the Day) with no service through blackout stricken Manhattan south of about 30th Street after Superstorm Sandy. I decided I had to see how navigating the city would be heading to Brooklyn to visit a friend. […]

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Transit Adventures

My Unlimited Ride Recap as I Continue My Quest

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 […]

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Transit Adventures

Finishing the LIRR Main, Atlantic, and Babylon/Montalk Lines in Queens – 8 more stations!

Well as I discussed in yesterday’s blog post for the Nassau County Portions of the West Hempstead and Hempstead Branches today I decided to do another bus trip in eastern Queens to finish off every LIRR station (except on the Port Washington Branch) within New York City. This trip since Queens has much better bus […]

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Transit Adventures

Station to Stations of both Hempstead branches – 7 miles total of walking, 11 stations photo essayed

What happens when one of your even more ridiculously ambitious goals is to photograph every commuter railroad station in addition to every subway station and you find the price of railroad tickets too high and no single day unlimited passes offered? You do a lot of walking! Perhaps when I’m in New York in summer […]