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The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad leased the B&A for 99 years from July 1, 1900. This lease passed to the New York Central Railroad in 1914; throughout this, the B&A kept its own branding in the public eye. The NYC merged into Penn Central on February 1, 1968. New York Central began a major modernization program in 1924.
Harvard Avenue station is a light rail station on the MBTA Green Line B branch, located in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The station is located on the west side of Commonwealth Avenue at Harvard Avenue, in a residential and commercial district. The station consists of two side platforms, located on opposite sides of Harvard ...
In its waning years, the Hudson Branch would serve freight exclusively. In the summer of 1892, an accident took place in Claverack, New York. [2] In 1900, the line along with the B&A itself were acquired by the New York Central Railroad, thereby making Hudson, Harlem, and B&A Main Line work as one with the former H&B. (However, the B&A would ...
Metro-North Railroad (game days only): Harlem Line, New Haven Line New York City Subway: 4 , B, and D (at 161st Street–Yankee Stadium) New York City Bus: Bx6, Bx6 SBS, Bx13 SeaStreak to Highlands Terminal (game days only) Highbridge: 6.7 (10.8) c. 1870s: June 3, 1975 Highbridge station currently is a Metro-North employee-only stop. Morris ...
The Harvard Avenue Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by Linden Street, Commonwealth Avenue, Harvard Avenue, and Park Vale Avenue in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Its spine is Harvard Avenue, a major north–south thoroughfare connecting Allston to points north (generally via Cambridge Street toward ...
The Boston and Albany Railroad's passenger terminal was in the block bounded by Kneeland Street, Beach Street, Albany Street (now Surface Artery) and Lincoln Street. This later became a freight house , and is now a block in Chinatown ; the passenger terminal was moved to the west side of Utica Street, from Kneeland Street south to a bit past ...
[2]: 5, 25 At the time, freight access via the Hudson Division was limited by overhead clearances of 15.25 feet (4.65 m) and capacity limitations due to passage over the New Haven, Harlem and Hudson commuter rail lines. New York State's Intermodal Study found that 9.6 percent of conventional rail cars in the United States were too high to use ...
Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City 2002–2012, lived in Brookline as a child; Otis Clapp, politician (Massachusetts state representative and member of the old Boston City Council), homeopath, pharmacist, publisher, bookseller, and U.S. Internal Revenue Bureau collector [53] Thomas Aspinwall Davis (1798–1845), businessman and mayor of ...