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Waldbaum's was a supermarket chain with stores in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx; and in Nassau, Suffolk counties and Upstate New York. The chain also for a time operated stores in New Jersey , Connecticut , and Massachusetts .
The oldest subway line in Queens is the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line which was extended from Brooklyn into Ridgewood and Middle Village, replacing a steam dummy line. This was followed by the IRT Flushing Line , which had only one station in Long Island City, until it was extended with Dual Contracts to Astoria in 1916, Corona on April 21, 1917, [ 1 ...
The Middle Village–Metropolitan Avenue station (announced as the Metropolitan Avenue-Middle Village station on trains) is a terminal station of the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. It is located at the intersection of Metropolitan Avenue and Rentar Plaza in the neighborhood of Middle Village, Queens. [4]
Metro Mall and Rentar Plaza pictured in 2007 . Metro Mall is a tri-level shopping mall on Metropolitan Avenue just west of the neighborhood's subway station. [7] In 1920, the C.B. French Company, which made telephone booths for the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (now AT&T), built a factory on what is now the site of Metro Mall.
Traveling west along Metropolitan, the route stops at the Middle Village–Metropolitan Avenue station of the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line, and the Metro Mall shopping center. [9] [7] The Q38 continues west to Fresh Pond Road, in Ridgewood where it then turns north and then east onto Eliot Avenue, and back into Middle Village again.
Middle Village: Middle Village–Metropolitan Avenue: M October 1, 1906 Service extended to pre-existing Lutheran Line station. Current station is ~100 feet west of the 1906 one. Ridgewood: connecting track to Fresh Pond Yard; Fresh Pond Road: M February 22, 1915 Forest Avenue: M February 22, 1915 Seneca Avenue: M February 22, 1915 Brooklyn ...
The Waldbaum's Supermarket Fire was a major fire on August 2, 1978, in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York City, United States, that killed six FDNY firefighters. The Waldbaum's store at 2892 Ocean Avenue was undergoing extensive renovations, but was open for customers when the fire broke out.
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