Haberman station

{{Short description|New York railroad station}}

{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2023}}

{{Infobox station

| style = LIRR

| name = Haberman

| image = Habreman Vlcsnap-2024-09-06-11h27m06s617.png

| image_caption = The site of the former Haberman Station, on 49th Place south of Rust Street, facing east

| address = 56-50 49th Street (approximate)

| coordinates = {{coord|40.725844|-73.918377|type:railwaystation_region:US-NY|display=inline, title}}

| line = Montauk Branch

| owned = Long Island Rail Road

| platform = 2 side platforms

| tracks = 2

| opened = September 1892

| closed = March 16, 1998

| rebuilt =

| electrified = August 29, 1905

| formerly =

| other_services_header = Services

| other_services = {{Adjacent stations|system=LIRR|line=Montauk|left=Laurel Hill|right=Maspeth|to-left=Long Island City}}

}}

Haberman was a station along the Long Island Rail Road's Lower Montauk Branch that was located at the intersection of Rust Street and 50th Street in Maspeth, Queens.{{cite book |url=http://digitalarchives.queenslibrary.org/vital/access/services/Download/aql:340/SOURCE1?view=true#page=304 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150419021259if_/http://digitalarchives.queenslibrary.org/vital/access/services/Download/aql:340/SOURCE1?view=true#page=304 |archive-date=2015-04-19 |title=The Long Island Rail Road: A Comprehensive History |first=Vincent F. |last=Seyfried |volume=6: The Golden Age 1881–1900 |section=Station List|page=266 |location=Garden City, New York |publisher=self-published |year=1975 |oclc=192099519 |lccn=61-17477 |type=pdf |via=Queens Public Library |ref=aql:340 }} The station is named after the Haberman Steel Enamel Works in Berlin village.

Haberman opened in September 1892 (by some accounts{{cite web |date=March 2006 |author= Arthur John Huneke |title=HP&SSRR |website=arrts-arrchives.com|url=https://arrts-arrchives.com/HPSSRR.html |access-date=2024-10-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240415020537/https://arrts-arrchives.com/HPSSRR.html |archive-date=2024-04-15 |quote=LOOKING NORTH JUST SOUTH OF CLIFTON AVENUE (46th STREET) IN 1910. IN THE 1880'S AND UNTIL SEPTEMBER 1892, THIS WAS THE LOCATION OF LAUREL HILL STATION.}} effectively replacing Laurel Hill station, which had until then been situated only a short distance to west) to serve the Haberman Manufacturing Company;{{cite web |first=Isaac |last=Schultz |url=https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-york-disappearing-neighborhood |title=The Brief, Baffling Life of an Accidental New York Neighborhood |website=Atlas Obscura |date=October 15, 2019 |access-date=September 25, 2023 }} service was furnished by the Long Island City–East New York rapid-transit trains. Around 1910 the station had low-level wooden platforms,{{cite web |type=digitized photograph| date=1910 |title=Looking west at Haberman station in 1910 |website=arrts-arrchives.com|url=http://www.arrts-arrchives.com/images2/hpss1lhsm.JPG |access-date=2024-10-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030160217/http://www.arrts-arrchives.com/images2/hpss1lhsm.JPG |archive-date=2007-10-30 |format=JPEG}} but there never was a station building. The station still had manual railroad crossing gates and a guard shack as recently as 1973. Average daily westbound ridership at the station in 1997 having been 3,{{cite web |author=AECOM, USA |url=https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/lower-montauk-final-report-jan2018.pdf |title=Lower Montauk Branch Passenger Rail Study |publisher=New York City Department of Transportation |date=January 2018 |access-date=2020-07-17 }} it was closed on March 16, 1998, along with Penny Bridge, Fresh Pond, Glendale, and Richmond Hill stations.{{cite news |last=Sengupta |first=Somini |title=End of the Line for L.I.R.R.'s 10 Loneliest Stops |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 15, 1998 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/15/nyregion/end-of-the-line-for-lirr-s-10-loneliest-stops.html |access-date=2009-08-07}} In January 2018, Haberman was one of 8 stations on the Lower Montauk Branch that were considered for reopening in a study sponsored by the New York City Department of Transportation.

On some maps, presumably as a result of error in digitizing a USGS map, Haberman mistakenly appears as the name of a neighborhood, corresponding to an industrialized area of Maspeth.{{cite news |first=Mike |last=Sugerman | title = Sweet Spot: Unraveling The Mystery Of Haberman, Queens | url=https://wcbs880.radio.com/articles/news/what-and-where-haberman-queens |publisher=WCBS 880 |date=November 15, 2019 |access-date=2020-07-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200719071427/https://wcbs880.radio.com/articles/news/what-and-where-haberman-queens|archive-date=2020-07-19}} Google Maps removed the name in 2019.