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7 World Trade Center (7 WTC, WTC-7, or Tower 7), colloquially known as Building 7 or the Salomon Brothers Building, was an office building constructed as part of the original World Trade Center Complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The tower was located on a city block bounded by West Broadway, Vesey Street, Washington Street, and Barclay ...
Hicksville station is a commuter rail station on the Main Line and Port Jefferson Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, located in Hicksville, New York.It is the busiest station east of Jamaica and Penn Station by combined weekday/weekend ridership.
[107] [108] [109] It also includes the largest ventilation towers in the New York City Subway stations. [107] [108] [85] Originally, the new station was also planned to feature platform screen doors. [110] However, plans for screen doors in New York City Subway stations were dropped in 2012, in part because of concerns over cost and maintenance.
The initial use of these signals was merely to indicate the on-time status of trains, rather than to control train movements. The wooden balls were often configured with lanterns for nighttime use. [8]: 18 Ball signals were first used to direct train movements in 1852, on the New York and New Haven Railroad.
On December 7, 1993, a mass shooting occurred aboard a Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) train in Garden City Park, New York, United States. As the train arrived at the Merillon Avenue station, passenger Colin Ferguson began firing at other passengers with a semi-automatic pistol. Six of the victims were killed and nineteen others were wounded ...
A New Haven EP-1 electric locomotive, circa 1907. Note the small DC pantograph between the two larger AC pantographs. The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad pioneered electrification of main line railroads using high-voltage, alternating current, single-phase overhead catenary.
The 1964 New York World's Fair (also known as the 1964–1965 New York World's Fair) was an international exposition at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City, United States. The fair included exhibitions, activities, performances, films, art, and food presented by 80 nations, 24 U.S. states , and nearly 350 American companies.
It is sporadically used. The platform on the south side of the station is not used. The switches for the siding are hand-operated, not remotely controlled by DIVIDE Tower in Hicksville, thus making it impractical for everyday LIRR use. The siding is mostly used by work trains and, on rare occasions, by New York and Atlantic Railway freight trains.