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Ridgewood (LIRR Evergreen Branch station)

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Owned by
  
MTA

Closed
  
1894

Previous names
  
DeKalb Avenue

Platforms in use
  
2

Line(s)
  
Evergreen Branch

Rebuilt
  
No; Station abandoned

Opened
  
14 July 1878

Tracks
  
2

Ridgewood (LIRR Evergreen Branch station)

Location
  
DeKalb Avenue between Irving Avenue and Wyckoff Avenue Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York

Owner
  
Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Ridgewood (formerly known as DeKalb Avenue) was a train station along the Evergreen Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. The station opened on July 14, 1878. DeKalb Avenue was renamed Ridgewood in June 1882. From the Greenpoint Terminal it took 15 minutes to get here. The station closed with the end of passenger service in 1894.

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Ridgewood (LIRR Evergreen Branch station) Wikipedia