That was mostly for passenger traffic in Manhattan. Freight and switching operations held out until the 1926 Kaufman Act deadline. Even so, the LIRR bent the rules, as their G5’s as far west as Long Island City
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
That was mostly for passenger traffic in Manhattan. Freight and switching operations held out until the 1926 Kaufman Act deadline. Even so, the LIRR bent the rules, as their G5’s as far west as Long Island City
Dangerous radiation levels detected in San Francisco
#HuntersPoint #RadiationAlert #SanFrancisco
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWg5...
#HuntersPoint #RadiationAlert #SanFrancisco
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWg5...
Dangerous radiation levels detected in San Francisco
YouTube video by B.C. Begley
www.youtube.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Dangerous radiation levels detected in San Francisco
#HuntersPoint #RadiationAlert #SanFrancisco
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWg5...
#HuntersPoint #RadiationAlert #SanFrancisco
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWg5...
"Radioactive plutonium was found in the air above Bayview-Hunters Point at twice the federal government’s recommended levels, according to a letter from San Francisco’s chief health officer sent to the U.S. Navy today"
#SF #HuntersPoint #nuclear
missionlocal.org/2025/10/navy...
#SF #HuntersPoint #nuclear
missionlocal.org/2025/10/navy...
U.S. Navy found elevated plutonium in Bayview — S.F. says it was kept in the dark
San Francisco officials say they weren’t told that the Navy detected plutonium at the Hunters Point Shipyard for 11 months.
missionlocal.org
October 31, 2025 at 12:47 AM
"Radioactive plutonium was found in the air above Bayview-Hunters Point at twice the federal government’s recommended levels, according to a letter from San Francisco’s chief health officer sent to the U.S. Navy today"
#SF #HuntersPoint #nuclear
missionlocal.org/2025/10/navy...
#SF #HuntersPoint #nuclear
missionlocal.org/2025/10/navy...
Alarmingly high levels of #Plutonium-239 have been detected at former #HuntersPoint Shipyard, prompting #SanFranciscoDPH to warn #Bayview community partners about the threat & press the #USNavy for answers about its ongoing cleanup of the site.
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/h...
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/h...
Alarming levels of ‘airborne’ radioactive materials detected at former Navy shipyard in S.F.
The Navy, which operated at the shipyard from 1945 to 1974 and is responsible for cleaning the 500-acre shipyard on the southeastern edge of San Francisco.
www.sfchronicle.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Alarmingly high levels of #Plutonium-239 have been detected at former #HuntersPoint Shipyard, prompting #SanFranciscoDPH to warn #Bayview community partners about the threat & press the #USNavy for answers about its ongoing cleanup of the site.
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/h...
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/h...
Here's a fun thought experiment: if you were going to close any subway stations in New York (or honestly anywhere) to speed service, what would they be?
I might argue for Hunterspoint Ave on the 7. So close to Vernon-Jackson, the line is so busy, and there is only limited LIRR service.
I might argue for Hunterspoint Ave on the 7. So close to Vernon-Jackson, the line is so busy, and there is only limited LIRR service.
14th St, 18th St, 23rd, 28th, 34th puts the s(lo)w in (lo)cal
September 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Here's a fun thought experiment: if you were going to close any subway stations in New York (or honestly anywhere) to speed service, what would they be?
I might argue for Hunterspoint Ave on the 7. So close to Vernon-Jackson, the line is so busy, and there is only limited LIRR service.
I might argue for Hunterspoint Ave on the 7. So close to Vernon-Jackson, the line is so busy, and there is only limited LIRR service.
The image on the left was the official LIRR station page image for Hunterspoint Avenue until they moved everything to the new website (which doesn't have photos).
Photo on the right is skyline in 2021.
Really encapsulates how aloof MTA has been to city's growth www.thelirrtoday.com/2023/03/lirr...
Photo on the right is skyline in 2021.
Really encapsulates how aloof MTA has been to city's growth www.thelirrtoday.com/2023/03/lirr...
September 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The image on the left was the official LIRR station page image for Hunterspoint Avenue until they moved everything to the new website (which doesn't have photos).
Photo on the right is skyline in 2021.
Really encapsulates how aloof MTA has been to city's growth www.thelirrtoday.com/2023/03/lirr...
Photo on the right is skyline in 2021.
Really encapsulates how aloof MTA has been to city's growth www.thelirrtoday.com/2023/03/lirr...
“San Francisco Adds 73 Affordable Units in Hunters Point with New Complex” — Davis Vanguard
#SanFranciscoNews #HuntersPoint #SanFrancisco
#SanFranciscoNews #HuntersPoint #SanFrancisco
September 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
“San Francisco Adds 73 Affordable Units in Hunters Point with New Complex” — Davis Vanguard
#SanFranciscoNews #HuntersPoint #SanFrancisco
#SanFranciscoNews #HuntersPoint #SanFrancisco
pouring one out for the guy on the subway this morning who dropped his phone while we were pulled into hunterspoint ave and it bounced right out the door and between the gap
August 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
pouring one out for the guy on the subway this morning who dropped his phone while we were pulled into hunterspoint ave and it bounced right out the door and between the gap
Hunter’s Point contamination. Area has a lot of nuclear waste all over so this is one of the condemned buildings
#hunterspoint #condemned #contaminated #sanfrancisco #eastcoastkin #urbanscape
#hunterspoint #condemned #contaminated #sanfrancisco #eastcoastkin #urbanscape
August 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Hunter’s Point contamination. Area has a lot of nuclear waste all over so this is one of the condemned buildings
#hunterspoint #condemned #contaminated #sanfrancisco #eastcoastkin #urbanscape
#hunterspoint #condemned #contaminated #sanfrancisco #eastcoastkin #urbanscape
Hunters Point heats up! In just 3 months, the average sold price surged 98%—from $399K to $790K—while properties snapped up in only 13 days. This market is on fire! #SFRealEstate #HuntersPoint #Housing
July 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Hunters Point heats up! In just 3 months, the average sold price surged 98%—from $399K to $790K—while properties snapped up in only 13 days. This market is on fire! #SFRealEstate #HuntersPoint #Housing
Got old Queens recipes, postcards, or photos? Preserve them at our free Community Scanning Day! Join us at Hunters Point Library on Thursday, July 24, from 4-7:30 PM. Get free digitization, keep originals, and receive a flash drive. All welcome! 📸🌆✨ buff.ly/jF89XUP
#CommunityArchives #HuntersPoint
#CommunityArchives #HuntersPoint
July 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Got old Queens recipes, postcards, or photos? Preserve them at our free Community Scanning Day! Join us at Hunters Point Library on Thursday, July 24, from 4-7:30 PM. Get free digitization, keep originals, and receive a flash drive. All welcome! 📸🌆✨ buff.ly/jF89XUP
#CommunityArchives #HuntersPoint
#CommunityArchives #HuntersPoint
In 2014 a whistleblower with Navy contractor Tetra Tech revealed the company faked results of radioactive cleanup at Hunters Point shipyard in San Francisco. New ep. w/ Chris Roberts up on the feeds. #hunterspoint #atomictesting
July 2, 2025 at 3:52 AM
In 2014 a whistleblower with Navy contractor Tetra Tech revealed the company faked results of radioactive cleanup at Hunters Point shipyard in San Francisco. New ep. w/ Chris Roberts up on the feeds. #hunterspoint #atomictesting
In Hunters Point, active list prices jumped 33% from $652K to $868K in just 3 months—but sold prices tumbled 32.7% from $609K to $410K! This disconnect is turning heads. #SFRealEstate #HuntersPoint #Housing
June 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
In Hunters Point, active list prices jumped 33% from $652K to $868K in just 3 months—but sold prices tumbled 32.7% from $609K to $410K! This disconnect is turning heads. #SFRealEstate #HuntersPoint #Housing
“San Francisco Bayview-Hunters Point residents battling to stop massive development project” — CBS News
#SFNews #Bayview #HuntersPoint
#SFNews #Bayview #HuntersPoint
June 5, 2025 at 12:51 AM
“San Francisco Bayview-Hunters Point residents battling to stop massive development project” — CBS News
#SFNews #Bayview #HuntersPoint
#SFNews #Bayview #HuntersPoint
- New station at Long Island City or Hunterspoint Ave for Penn station bound trains
- Stagger tracks into two levels to increase platform size
- Overhead electrify to Ronkonkoma
- Combine NJT and LIRR into one service
- Demolish Madison square garden, and move it to Madison square (or elsewhere)
- Stagger tracks into two levels to increase platform size
- Overhead electrify to Ronkonkoma
- Combine NJT and LIRR into one service
- Demolish Madison square garden, and move it to Madison square (or elsewhere)
April 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
- New station at Long Island City or Hunterspoint Ave for Penn station bound trains
- Stagger tracks into two levels to increase platform size
- Overhead electrify to Ronkonkoma
- Combine NJT and LIRR into one service
- Demolish Madison square garden, and move it to Madison square (or elsewhere)
- Stagger tracks into two levels to increase platform size
- Overhead electrify to Ronkonkoma
- Combine NJT and LIRR into one service
- Demolish Madison square garden, and move it to Madison square (or elsewhere)
I wonder if people can fully understand what this station is, or what trains stop here. The entrance is very nondescript, and all the signage is vandalized! I imagine only people in the know would ever encounter this. #trains #photography
February 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I wonder if people can fully understand what this station is, or what trains stop here. The entrance is very nondescript, and all the signage is vandalized! I imagine only people in the know would ever encounter this. #trains #photography
Depending on where you are starting from at GCT (e.g. the Lexington Avenue Line platforms at Grand Central), it's actually faster to get to the LIRR platforms at **HUNTERSPOINT AVENUE** than the far end of the caverns at GCT!
February 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Depending on where you are starting from at GCT (e.g. the Lexington Avenue Line platforms at Grand Central), it's actually faster to get to the LIRR platforms at **HUNTERSPOINT AVENUE** than the far end of the caverns at GCT!
Went back to double check something, and I realized it's odd that this map shows LIC and Hunterspoint being disconnected from *each other*. Maybe the LIRR was terminating trains at Hunterspoint in that era? 🤔
Regardless, LIC was always a terminal, so it never had a route to NYP.
Regardless, LIC was always a terminal, so it never had a route to NYP.
This 1972-vintage map correctly shows LIC and Hunterspoint Ave being disconnected from the line to NYP. Amusingly, the NY Connecting RR (then PC and Amtrak) is omitted entirely - which would make sense since this is a "commuter" map, except Amtrak is shown in every other direction.
February 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Went back to double check something, and I realized it's odd that this map shows LIC and Hunterspoint being disconnected from *each other*. Maybe the LIRR was terminating trains at Hunterspoint in that era? 🤔
Regardless, LIC was always a terminal, so it never had a route to NYP.
Regardless, LIC was always a terminal, so it never had a route to NYP.
This 1972-vintage map correctly shows LIC and Hunterspoint Ave being disconnected from the line to NYP. Amusingly, the NY Connecting RR (then PC and Amtrak) is omitted entirely - which would make sense since this is a "commuter" map, except Amtrak is shown in every other direction.
February 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This 1972-vintage map correctly shows LIC and Hunterspoint Ave being disconnected from the line to NYP. Amusingly, the NY Connecting RR (then PC and Amtrak) is omitted entirely - which would make sense since this is a "commuter" map, except Amtrak is shown in every other direction.
Signage of the NYC commuter rail systems within the city itself can be spotty. I've got a couple photos to show this off but here's a good example of an old sign left in neglect at Hunterspoint Avenue. These lightly served stations within the city are often neglected. #trains #photography
February 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Signage of the NYC commuter rail systems within the city itself can be spotty. I've got a couple photos to show this off but here's a good example of an old sign left in neglect at Hunterspoint Avenue. These lightly served stations within the city are often neglected. #trains #photography
Hope everyone is having a nice first day of the New Year! I visited Hunterspoint Avenue a while back, saw this LIRR diesel train waiting to depart. This area is really interesting, as these tracks really contain the Long Island City development. #trains #photography
January 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Hope everyone is having a nice first day of the New Year! I visited Hunterspoint Avenue a while back, saw this LIRR diesel train waiting to depart. This area is really interesting, as these tracks really contain the Long Island City development. #trains #photography
NYC: Then & Now
Hunterspoint Avenue Station, 1962 ~ 2024
@discovering-nyc.bsky.social
#NYC #NewYork #Vintage #ThenAndNow
More here:
instagram.com/nycthennow
dezsantana.com/then_now
Hunterspoint Avenue Station, 1962 ~ 2024
@discovering-nyc.bsky.social
#NYC #NewYork #Vintage #ThenAndNow
More here:
instagram.com/nycthennow
dezsantana.com/then_now
December 4, 2024 at 2:10 PM
NYC: Then & Now
Hunterspoint Avenue Station, 1962 ~ 2024
@discovering-nyc.bsky.social
#NYC #NewYork #Vintage #ThenAndNow
More here:
instagram.com/nycthennow
dezsantana.com/then_now
Hunterspoint Avenue Station, 1962 ~ 2024
@discovering-nyc.bsky.social
#NYC #NewYork #Vintage #ThenAndNow
More here:
instagram.com/nycthennow
dezsantana.com/then_now
Much like UFOs, until I see them with my own eyes I refuse to believe in trains that stop at Hunterspoint Avenue
November 29, 2024 at 5:35 AM
Much like UFOs, until I see them with my own eyes I refuse to believe in trains that stop at Hunterspoint Avenue
"Rarely seen documents show a Cold War atomic research facility headquartered at #HuntersPoint conducted studies that exposed at least 1,073 people to potentially harmful #radiation The legacy of that era is a continuing risk to public health". www.sfpublicpress.org/exposed-part...
How a San Francisco Navy Lab Became a Hub for Human Radiation Experiments
Our investigative series, “Exposed: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point," details how the U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, based at a shipyard in San Francisco, exposed at leas...
www.sfpublicpress.org
November 27, 2024 at 5:39 PM
"Rarely seen documents show a Cold War atomic research facility headquartered at #HuntersPoint conducted studies that exposed at least 1,073 people to potentially harmful #radiation The legacy of that era is a continuing risk to public health". www.sfpublicpress.org/exposed-part...
7 trains are running with delays in both directions after we removed a train in need of repair from service at 34 St-Hudson Yards.
To alleviate track congestion, some Manhattan-bound 7 trains turned for Main St-bound service at Queensboro Plaza and Hunterspoint Ave.
To alleviate track congestion, some Manhattan-bound 7 trains turned for Main St-bound service at Queensboro Plaza and Hunterspoint Ave.
7 trains are running with delays in both directions while we remove a train in need of repair from service at 34 St-Hudson Yards.
November 20, 2024 at 10:42 PM
7 trains are running with delays in both directions after we removed a train in need of repair from service at 34 St-Hudson Yards.
To alleviate track congestion, some Manhattan-bound 7 trains turned for Main St-bound service at Queensboro Plaza and Hunterspoint Ave.
To alleviate track congestion, some Manhattan-bound 7 trains turned for Main St-bound service at Queensboro Plaza and Hunterspoint Ave.