Haberman was a station along the Long Island Rail Road's Lower Montauk Branch that was located at the intersection of Rust Street and 50th Street in Maspeth, Queens. The station is named after the Haberman Steel Enamel Works in Berlin village.
Haberman opened in September 1892 (by some accounts effectively replacing Laurel Hill station, which had until then been situated only a short distance to west) to serve the Haberman Manufacturing Company; service was furnished by the Long Island City–East New York rapid-transit trains. Around 1910 the station had low-level wooden platforms, but there never was a station building. The station still had manual railroad crossing gates and a guard shack as recently as 1973. Average daily westbound ridership at the station in 1997 having been 3, it was closed on March 16, 1998, along with Penny Bridge, Fresh Pond, Glendale, and Richmond Hill stations. In January 2018, Haberman was one of 8 stations on the Lower Montauk Branch that were considered for reopening in a study sponsored by the New York City Department of Transportation.
On some maps, presumably as a result of error in digitizing a USGS map, Haberman mistakenly appears as the name of a neighborhood, corresponding to an industrialized area of Maspeth. Google Maps removed the name in 2019.
References
External links
- Robert W. Andersen, Unofficial LIRR History Website (archived from the original on October 12, 1991)
- Images of remains of the station, late 1990s (archived from the originals):
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- Arthur John Huneke, Arrt's Arrchives: images of the station
