Newtown - New York & Manhattan Beach Railroad Tracks - Ridgewood

Collection: Eugene Armbruster Drawings and Photographs

Date: 1922 Material: Black and white photograph Dimension: 4.5 x 3.5 inches; 400 dpi

Creator: Eugene L. Armbruster Identifier: aql:26022 ela-004556 ela-004556.tif

Description: New York & Manhattan Beach Railroad Tracks - (later LIRR), view along the LIRR (Formerly New York & Manhattan Beach RR) right of way at the Halsey Street crossing. BRT Trolley No. 4510 is at the crossing, at left is the former railroad station which serviced the Wallace's Ridgewood Park Baseball Grounds (opened 1885), and then in 1922 it was used as a coal yard office. Until the county line change in the 1920's, this was in Queens County.

Title : Newtown - New York & Manhattan Beach Railroad Tracks - Ridgewood

Collection : aql:7837

Creator : Eugene L. Armbruster

Date : 1922

Summary/Description : New York & Manhattan Beach Railroad Tracks - (later LIRR), view along the LIRR (Formerly New York & Manhattan Beach RR) right of way at the Halsey Street crossing. BRT Trolley No. 4510 is at the crossing, at left is the former railroad station which serviced the Wallace's Ridgewood Park Baseball Grounds (opened 1885), and then in 1922 it was used as a coal yard office. Until the county line change in the 1920's, this was in Queens County.

Subject : Railroads; Railroad stations; Street-railroads; Long Island Rail Road; NY & Manhattan Beach Railway

Relation : Eugene Armbruster Drawings and Photographs

Rights : Public domain; Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.

Coverage : Ridgewood (New York, N.Y.); Bushwick, Queens, NY Ridgewood (New York, N.Y.) Bushwick (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.) Newtown (Queens County, N.Y.)

Type : Black and white photograph

Format : Black and white photograph; 4.5 x 3.5 inches; 400 dpi

Identifier : aql:26022 ela-004556 ela-004556.tif