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The station opened on June 24, 1890, when the local Atlantic Avenue rapid transit trains were extended from Woodhaven Junction through Jamaica to Rockaway Junction, their new terminal. [1]
Clarenceville was originally an 1874-built Atlantic Avenue Rapid Transit station that was reopened as an LIRR station in 1905 as part of the LIRR's electrification of the Atlantic Branch, and closed in 1939, when the branch was moved underground, along with Warwick Street, Autumn Avenue, Union Course, Woodhaven, Morris Park, and Dunton stations.
The BSC Young Boys organization stood very close to bankruptcy and few thought it still possible to salvage YB. A Lucerne investment company saved the club from ruin, although by 1999 the debt was over 1.7 million Swiss francs (~€1.08 million). Almost the entire squad left the capital and YB competed with the shell of a team the next season.
The Mineola Intermodal Center is an intermodal center and transportation hub in the village of Mineola, Nassau County, New York, U.S.It contains the Mineola Long Island Rail Road station – one of the railroad's busiest stations – in addition to one of the Nassau Inter-County Express bus system's main hubs, located adjacent to the southern train platform.
A new, high level platform was constructed at the station around 1973 to replace the existing, ground level platform and enable level boarding; prior to this, the station was unable to be serviced by the LIRR's then-new M1 railcars, which required high level platforms. The Lakeview station was rebuilt in its current form in the mid-1990s.
In December of the same year, the Times reported that the $12 billion East Side Access project, which would extend the LIRR to Grand Central Terminal upon its completion, was the most expensive of its kind in the world, with a projected price of $3.5 billion per mile of track. Over the years, the projected cost of East Side Access had risen by ...
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority renovated the station in the 2010s, bringing it into compliance with the 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act.According to a description of the $24.6 million project, one elevator was built from each platform to street level, and various components of the station were renovated.
The LIRR is currently reporting 15-20 minute delays on the Ronkonkoma, Port Jefferson, Oyster Bay and Hempstead Branches. Find out what's happening in Queens with free, real-time updates from ...