I live near Parkchester and Coop City in the Bronx. The right of way and the rails are already there from earlier commuter services to the northern 'burbs used only by occasional freight trains today. It would be fairly inexpensive to do, "re-inventing" what had been there so to speak. Many people live in both places, Parkchester and Coop City, both with "built-in" shopping and services that would benefit by being in new transportation hubs. It would even help the former 3rd Avenue El hub in the South Bronx I once lived next to, the Manhattan part of the Third Ave. El, torn down and sold to the Japanese before WWII, not the Bronx part torn down in the 1950s.
Comment on "Mayor backs new LIRR stations" (Elmhurst and Corona, Queens, NY) Newsday, June 11, 2007
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