Re: Tracing the New York & Manhattan Beach
| May 05, 2014 07:31PM |
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Looking northwest along N 15th Street in Greenpoint toward Franklin Street and Bushwick Inlet, as it appeared this morning 5/5/2014. Squint your eyes and imagine double tracked narrow gauge street running here in the 1870s. 
(That's the Manhattan skyline with the Empire State Building in the distance.)
The intersection of N 15th and Franklin Streets, location of the quadruple diamond crossing of the NY&MB and the Brooklyn City Railroad horse car line described in my post above. The unwelcoming fence topped with barbed wire prevents us from following the ROW any farther here.
Bushwick Inlet and the NY&MB ROW as viewed through the chain link fence along Franklin Street at N. 15th Street. (Urban railfans spend a lot of time peering through chain link fences.
) The NY&MB Greenpoint yard and depot were located on the site now occupied by the low brick building on the right, which I understand is a warehouse operated by the stores department of the NY Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). I recall seeing an interesting article in the NY Times a decade or so ago about how a number of former NY&MB properties in Brooklyn without current rail utility were still owned 120+ years later by the NY&MB's successor railroad the LIRR, and I suspect this may be one of those.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/05/2014 08:53PM by philip.marshall.
(That's the Manhattan skyline with the Empire State Building in the distance.)
The intersection of N 15th and Franklin Streets, location of the quadruple diamond crossing of the NY&MB and the Brooklyn City Railroad horse car line described in my post above. The unwelcoming fence topped with barbed wire prevents us from following the ROW any farther here.
Bushwick Inlet and the NY&MB ROW as viewed through the chain link fence along Franklin Street at N. 15th Street. (Urban railfans spend a lot of time peering through chain link fences.
) The NY&MB Greenpoint yard and depot were located on the site now occupied by the low brick building on the right, which I understand is a warehouse operated by the stores department of the NY Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). I recall seeing an interesting article in the NY Times a decade or so ago about how a number of former NY&MB properties in Brooklyn without current rail utility were still owned 120+ years later by the NY&MB's successor railroad the LIRR, and I suspect this may be one of those.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/05/2014 08:53PM by philip.marshall.
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