Talk:Railroad terminals serving New York City

all?

The table below shows all railroad lines that have served New York City --- I would say that's a lie. >:O) At least on Long Island there were a lot more companies with various terminal stations at the East River, and there still are some today, since the New York and Atlantic Railway is not even on the list. What about LIRR's Bushwick terminal (that even had some passenger service in rush hours), the Edgewater terminal a little bit upriver of Weehawken, the 14th Street/Union Square terminal of NYC/NH, ...? Additionally, there were two different St. Johns Park terminals in Manhattan, the old one was somewhere around Varick/Laight Sts, I'm not sure. I hope someone has sources on that and can complete the list. --Thogo (Talk) 23:02, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

When I did research for the map, I learned that the old St. John's Park terminal was bounded by Varick, Laight, Hudson, and Beach streets (it is the one shown on the map), and in the 1930's the "West Side Improvement Project" built the new St. John's Park terminal at its present location at West St and W Houston and the old terminal and surface roads were abandoned. The old terminal location is now occupied by the approach loop for the Holland tunnel.

JimIrwin (talk) 11:59, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Ah cool, thanks. Is the (2nd) St. John's Park terminal still in use? I thought it was abandoned some years ago. O.O I'll just have a look when I'm there in September. *g* Btw., I wonder if you can find some information about the various terminals on the East River side, I mean Bay Ridge, Greenpoint (Glendale&East River RR) and Long Island City (Flushing&North Shore RR). BR, --Thogo (Talk) 20:54, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

St. John's park was abandoned in the early 1960s (1961 I think, but could be wrong) and the ones on the east river are for the most part listed in my post below.RR325 (talk) 20:55, 11 October 2014 (UTC)User:RR325

several terminals were not in New York City

Of the terminals listed as table headings Hoboken Terminal, Exchange Place (PRR station), Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal, Pavonia Terminal, and Weehawken Terminal (5 out of 7) were not in New York City, but did serve a New York area market. Perhaps the article rename carried out on 22 January 2006 should be reverted or another name such as Railroad terminals in the greater New York City area should be used for this article. By the way, according to this table the South Ferry, Brooklyn terminal was used by the LIRR from 1836 to 1861 — which was before Brooklyn was a part of New York City, and similar comments obtain for the first few decades use of the Long Island City (LIRR station) and Flatbush Terminals. 69.119.27.73 (talk)

Fully agreeing that "in" is a truly poor choice as 5 of these terminals aren't/weren't in New York City, but do/did serve the city. So that is the new name I chose. I'll also add Atlantic Terminal (the former Flatbush Ave)oknazevad (talk) 19:18, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

There is a definite Jersey and Manhattan bias to this map. The map and the table deal with those areas, neglecting Brooklyn and Queens terminals.Dogru144 (talk) 16:47, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

If you're interested in adding it, there's the Harlem River and Port Chester Railroad(NH), which had one at Willis Avenue (IRT elevated station) before and after that the IRT built that el station. -------User:DanTD (talk) 01:51, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Missing Freight Terminals(That I can't figure out how to add)

This table should also include the following FREIGHT terminals: Greenville Yards (PRR), Bush Terminal, Atlantic Terminal (New York Dock Co.) Baltic Terminal (New York Dock), Fulton Terminal (New York Dock), Kent Avenue Yards (BEDT) LIRR car float terminal adjacent to LIC yards, 30th Street Yards (NYC), St. John's Park Terminal (NYC(The old end of the high line)) 72nd street yards (NYC), 25th street? transfer station (ERIE/ERIE LACKAWANNA). There are more, but I can't remember them now. RR325 (talk) 20:53, 11 October 2014 (UTC)User:RR325

Pennsylvania Railroad missing

How did it happen that Pennsylvania Railroad was eliminated from the table? Its NJ presence is acknowledged in the Jersey City terminals is acknowledged in the map.Dogru144 (talk) 16:47, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Name change proposal

This article is more oriented towards metro New York City terminals. The title "... serving New York City" does not fit with how the majority of the cited terminals were actually in New Jersey. As far as I know, Jersey City, Hoboken and Weehawken have never been part of New York City. I propose that the title be changed to ". . . New York City and adjacent port cities" of " . . . Metropolitan New York City."Dogru144 (talk) 04:28, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

It's a little wordy. This is concise and relates to the target of the article - NYC-area stations. The fact that they also serve New Jerseyans isn't actually that relevant to the article's purpose. ɱ (talk) 04:36, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

Agreed. The terminals were built in New Jersey because that's as far as those railroads could afford to build, with the Hudson River being a massive obstacle. Make no mistake, these passenger terminals were built to serve people going to New York City, not the waterfront docks. That was the freight yards' purpose. The proposed name is pointlessly long and misses the (ferry) boat on what these were built for.

Only the mighty Pennsylvania was finally able to cross the Hudson, and that still took a ton of capital, and more than a little political trickery. The reason the Pennsy owned the LiRR for all those decades it did was entirely so that the PRR could exploit the LIRR's legal rights to access Manhattan, which no other railroad had besides the New York Central. oknazevad (talk) 04:43, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

Missing a few mid-Manhattan terminals

Before the Grand Central Depot there were terminals at 14th Street, and later, 26th Street. These should be added.Dogru144 (talk) 16:53, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

Isn't that covered by the "other" column for the Harlem? Those early depots don't have separate articles.

frankly, we shouldn't list things without actual dates to hse. Too many question marks look terrible. oknazevad (talk) 18:41, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

With the right research I'm sure we can find nearly all the dates needed? There are a lot of train resources available, especially in all the specialized libraries. ɱ (talk) 18:55, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

Oh, definitely. But I'm saying that we shouldn't be adding something with incomplete info. It just looks amateur hour. oknazevad (talk) 19:11, 26 February 2023 (UTC)