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    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...
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    Whitestone is a residential neighborhood in the northernmost part of the New York City borough of Queens. The neighborhood proper is located between the...
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    Flushing branch. In 1869, an affiliate of the Flushing and North Side, the Whitestone and Westchester Railroad, built the Whitestone Branch. It was intended...
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  • Look up whitestone in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Whitestone may refer to: Whitestone, Alaska, an unincorporated community Whitestone, Devon, a village...
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    Montauk Branch line is distinct from the Montauk Branch service. Babylon Branch trains run via the Montauk Branch east of Jamaica, but Montauk Branch service...
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    line to Winfield Junction by June 23, 1910, to Whitestone Junction onto the Whitestone Branch to Whitestone Landing Station by October 22, 1912, and to its...
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    Queens. It is bounded to the south by Whitestone Expressway and Flushing; to the east by 138th Street and Malba/Whitestone; to the north by the East River;...
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    Washington Branch near Mets–Willets Point station and ran north and east to Whitestone. The Woodside Branch ran north of the current Port Washington Branch between...
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    subway extension to Little Neck encouraged development there.: 68  The Whitestone Branch would have had to be rebuilt if it were leased to the subway, with...
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  • subway extension to Little Neck encouraged development there.: 68  The Whitestone Branch would have had to be rebuilt if it were leased to the subway, with...
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    Heather Leigh Whitestone McCallum (born February 24, 1973) is an American conservative activist and beauty queen who was the first deaf Miss America title...
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    (New York State Route 25A or NY 25A), the Whitestone Expressway from NY 25A north to the Bronx–Whitestone Bridge, and the Hutchinson River Expressway...
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    Whitestone Landing was the terminal station on the Whitestone Branch from its opening on August 9, 1886, to the Whitestone Branch's abandonment in February...
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  • Poppenhusen financed the construction of the Whitestone Branch of the LIRR in 1869. The rail line terminated at Whitestone Landing and each station featured charming...
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    Annabelle Whitestone, Baroness Weidenfeld (born October 1944), daughter of Cmdr. Nicholas Whitestone RN and Lorna Birkenshaw Whitestone, is an English...
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  • Whitestone station was located on the Whitestone Branch of the Long Island Rail Road in Whitestone, in Queens of New York City. The station was located...
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    located on the former right of way of the Long Island Rail Road's Whitestone Branch. Plans for this expansion are on an indefinite hold, however. 40°45′10″N...
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    went directly under the Roosevelt Avenue bridge. The LIRR's former Whitestone Branch was carried by a single-tracked wooden trestle north of the Roosevelt...
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    Rail Road closed its Whitestone Branch to the neighborhood of Whitestone in early 1932, there were proposals to connect the branch with the subway at the...
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    and North Side Railroad (today's LIRR Port Washington Branch and the defunct Whitestone Branch). Shortly after the American Civil War, the meadows became...
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    the LIRR Port Washington Branch interchange. The Q44 shifts onto Union Street and Parsons Boulevard to 14th Avenue in Whitestone, where some buses terminate...
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    adjacent to the IRT Flushing Line and Whitestone Landing operating over the Long Island Rail Road's Whitestone Branch. The line would have been under private...
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    Boulevard and 35th Avenue, and took commuters either to the former Whitestone Branch or to what is today Corona Yard. Like all other stations on Long Island...
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  • Library branches List of Brooklyn Public Library branches Queens Memory Project "History". Queens Library. Hyslop, John. Queens Library Branch locations...
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    the former Flushing Bridge Street station that ran along the F&NS's Whitestone Branch, which was abandoned by the LIRR in 1932. During the mid-1870s, the...
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    mothers are less common in Flushing and Whitestone than in other places citywide. In Flushing and Whitestone, there were 63 preterm births per 1,000 live...
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    Vanessa Lynn Branch (born March 21, 1973) is an English-born American actress and model. She is best known in the United States as the Orbit Gum girl for...
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    Washington Branch before merging with the LIRR Main Line at Winfield Junction. As of 2020, a portion of track from the Whitestone Branch, which diverged...
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  • from Flushing to Whitestone–14th Avenue Station on the Whitestone Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, better known as the Whitestone Line. Within Nassau...
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    1913, the remainder of the Port Washington Branch east of the former split with the former Whitestone Branch was electrified with a third rail, and thus...
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