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You can still walk from Neponsit to the station at Beach 116th though. It's not that far. Or take the Q22.
I'm not sure where you got that idea from, but Neponsit is not that close to Beach 116th street. If you're lumping it in with Belle Harbor, then sure it may not be that far, but Neponsit proper is a good 20 - 30 minute walk. You certainly need a bus to reach it.
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When government took over the system, the expansion ended. Now they just try to keep up with maintenance.
They did a little bit of expansion. The A was extended to the Rockaways via LIRR trackage by the city. The city merged the Smith Street line (F to Church Avenue) with the Culver line (elevated tracks to Coney Island). The City also connected the Broadway local to the Queens Blvd local, extended the E and F to 179th Street. They opened up the 57th Street and Grand Avenue stations in the 60s, and they connected the 6th Avenue line to the Manhattan and Williamsburg bride in the 1960s. In the 80s the E and J got extended to Jamaica Center, and the 63rd Street tunnel opened up to 21st Street Queens. In 2001 the 63rd Street tunnel was connected to the Queens Blvd line. in 2013 the 7 got extended to 34th Street, and in 2017 phase one of the Second Avenue Subway was connected.
The government also built an Airtrain that goes directly to JFK.
But the last major system built by the government was the IND, the A, B, C, D, E, F, G trains that the city built in the 20s and 30s to compete with the privately owned IRT, BMT, and to an extent the commuter rail systems.
Can't really blame them either. There are plenty of beautiful neighborhoods that don't have subway access:
Neponsit, Douglaston, Riverdale, Little Neck, Malba, Whitestone, Beechhurst, Riverdale, Country Club, Mill Basin, Bergen Beach and many more.
Communiting yo Bergen Beach is a disaster and I see that the B3 bus doesn’t run as deep into the area anymore. I haven’t taken a bus in a long time so I don’t know about any updated bus routes!
Communiting yo Bergen Beach is a disaster and I see that the B3 bus doesn’t run as deep into the area anymore. I haven’t taken a bus in a long time so I don’t know about any updated bus routes!
Yeah well the people in Bergen Beach like it that way. It's insular and out of the way and expensive. That's why most people there DRIVE or they have that express bus that runs down in Mill Basin. Hell the nicest neighborhoods in the Bronx don't have subway access and they have survived when the Bronx was burning... Throggs Neck remained a stable middle class neighborhood while most of the borough burned.
In fact just about all of the good neighborhoods in the Bronx don't have subway access:
Woodlawn, Country Club, City Island, Riverdale, Pelham Gardens, Morris Park (the subway is just on the border of the neighborhood, so most use the express bus). The only neighborhood I can think of that has subway access and is decent is Pelham Parkway.
Yeah well the people in Bergen Beach like it that way. It's insular and out of the way and expensive. That's why most people there DRIVE or they have that express bus that runs down in Mill Basin. Hell the nicest neighborhoods in the Bronx don't have subway access and they have survived when the Bronx was burning... Throggs Neck remained a stable middle class neighborhood while most of the borough burned.
In fact just about all of the good neighborhoods in the Bronx don't have subway access:
Woodlawn, Country Club, City Island, Riverdale, Pelham Gardens, Morris Park (the subway is just on the border of the neighborhood, so most use the express bus). The only neighborhood I can think of that has subway access and is decent is Pelham Parkway.
True. My mom wanted to move to Georgetown (between mill basin and Bergen Beach). Commuting from there to school in Manhattan by Columbus circle would be a nightmare!
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