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5 days ago · Unfortunately, Garden City’s Merillon Avenue Station was also the location of the 1993 Long Island Rail Road shooting, in which Colin Ferguson murdered six people and wounded nineteen...
1 day ago · In the early afternoon of December 22, 1984, four youths from the Bronx —19-year-olds Barry Allen, Troy Canty, and Darrell Cabey, and 18-year-old James Ramseur—boarded a downtown 2 train (a Broadway–Seventh Avenue express ). Canty would later testify that the victims were en route to steal from a video arcade machine in Manhattan.
5 days ago · You would be hard-pressed to find an unleashed dog roaming the aisles of a Long Island Railroad train car today (though we don’t think we’d mind it), but 100 years ago a free-spirited pup...
3 days ago · After 51 days, on April 19, 1993, the FBI launched a tear gas attack in an attempt to force the Branch Davidians out of the compound's buildings. Shortly thereafter, the Mount Carmel Center became engulfed in flames.
4 days ago · 1. Metro-North’s Hidden Power Station. Deep below Grand Central Terminal, the terminus of all the Metro-North train lines, there is a hidden power station known as M42. It was said to be so secret...
4 days ago · A broken rail west of Jamaica Station that forced some westbound trains destined for Penn Station and Grand Central to bypass several Queens has been repaired, according to a spokesperson for the...
3 days ago · The Rockaway Beach Line had been abandoned by the Long Island Rail Road on June 8, 1962. A new stop would be built at Linden Boulevard to connect with a new subway line. This line was expected to cost $39.9 million.
