This short triangle of boulevard
wedged between the Conrail and Long Island Railroad overpasses
forms the borderline badlands between Woodside to the west and
Elmhurst to the east. What little room does exist for business
here is relegated to used car lots on both sides. The LIRR bridge
above is similar in construction to a sister LIRR span several
blocks west near 65th Place. Trains headed for Port Washington
go over both, diverging eastbound from the main line just before
passing beneath the Conrail tracks, which themselves cut a long
swath south from the Hellgate Bridge in Astoria, down into East
New York, Brooklyn, and then eastward to Bush Terminal between
Bay Ridge, for which that section of track is named, and Sunset
Park. |