Whitestone Branch

The Whitestone Branch was a branch of the Long Island Rail Road, running north and east along the left bank of the Flushing River from the Port Washington Branch near the modern Willets Point, Flushing. It crossed the river at one of the three bridges later torn down for the Van Wyck Expressway, then ran north along Flushing Bay and east along the East River to Whitestone. Originally conceived as a branch of the Flushing and North Side Railroad that was intended to lead into Westchester County (a connection that never materialized) in 1869, it was consolidated into the Long Island Rail Road in 1876.

Stations consisted of Flushing–Bridge Street, College Point, Malba, Whitestone–14th Avenue, and Whitestone Landing at 155th Street, which later became the Beechhurst Yacht Club. Flushing–Bridge Street Station was built in 1870, College Point, and Whitestone–14th Avenue stations were opened in 1869, and Whitestone Landing Station was built in 1886, all by the F&NS Railroad. Malba station was built in 1909 by the LIRR. The line was abandoned on February 15, 1932.

External links

* [http://www.lirrhistory.com/whistone.html Whitestone Branch] (Unofficial LIRR History Website)
* [http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/whitestone/whitestone.html Like a Rolling Whitestone] (ForgottenNY.com)
* [http://arrts-arrchives.com/wstone1.html Whitestone Branch Part One] , [http://arrts-arrchives.com/cmfrt.html Part Two] , [http://arrts-arrchives.com/wstbrp3.html Part Three] , [http://arrts-arrchives.com/wstone2r.html Part Four] , and [http://arrts-arrchives.com/wstone3.html Part Five (Arrt's Arrchives)]