Haberman station

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.[1] The station is named after the Haberman Steel Enamel Works in Berlin Village.[1]

Haberman
Site of the former station
General information
Location	Rust and 50th Streets Maspeth, Queens, New York
Coordinates	40.725844°N 73.918377°W / 40.725844; -73.918377
Owned by	Long Island Rail Road
Line(s)	Montauk Branch
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
History
Opened	September 1892
Closed	March 16th, 1998
Electrified	August 29, 1905
Services
Preceding station Long Island Rail Road Following station Laurel Hill toward Long Island City Montauk Branch Maspeth toward Montauk

Haberman opened as a station for the convenience of workmen in September 1892; service was furnished by the Long Island City-East New York Rapid Transit trains. There never was a station building.[1] The station still had manual railroad crossing gates and a guard shack as recently as 1973. It was closed on March 16, 1998 along with Penny Bridge, Fresh Pond, Glendale and Richmond Hill stations;[2] average daily westbound ridership at the station in 1997 was 3.[3] 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.[3]

On some maps, Haberman mistakenly appears as the name of the neighborhood which the station was located, which on maps was referred to an industrialized area of Maspeth bounded by Grand Avenue to the south, 56th Road to the east, the Kosciusko Bridge carrying the Brooklyn Queens Expressway to the north and the Newtown Creek to the west.[4]