Re: (rshsdepot) In re of NY & Harlem to Park Row . . .

[CoolGuy127_@_aol.com]

In a message dated 03/22/2001 7:51:10 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
stevdel_@_prodigy.net writes:

<< The A. T. Stewart Building at 280 Broadway has lots of railroad
 connections -- old AT himself, besides creating the first department store
 here, founded Garden City (cf, Stewart Ave Station on the LIRR) and promoted
 a LIRR predecessor (forget which one) to feed it.  >>

    I think you are referring to the Central Railroad of Long Island, which 
ran from Flushing through Floral Park to Babylon.  Although most of the line 
has been abandoned for over a century, parts of it are still used by the LIRR 
for the Hempstead Branch and the Central Branch, which runs from Bethpage to 
Babylon.  Part of the abandoned right-of-way north of Floral Park follows a 
street now known as Stewart Avenue.

            Daniel Chazin
            Teaneck, NJ

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