The Queensboro Bridge originally had a trolley line from 1909 to 1957. This trolley had an underground station at 2nd Avenue and went to Astoria, Flushing, College Point, ...

The bridge authorities thought they might have 10,000 passengers on the first day the trolleys ran over the Queensboro Bridge. As a matter of fact, they had 18,000, and 10,000 were carried at a ...

In 2010, the city decided to rename the bridge in honor of former mayor Ed Koch, officially naming it the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge. A poll taken soon afterward showed that over 70% of Queens’s ...

She hopes to raise $60,000 to give this 6,000-pound piece of New York City history from 1909 a proper home near the historic cast iron and terra cotta kiosk that once served as a Queensboro Bridge ...

The story of modern Queens began when the Queensboro Bridge (aka the Ed Koch Queensboro bridge, but nobody in Queens actually calls it that) opened for business in 1909. Before the great span opened, ...

And the Queensboro Bridge? A ladder there takes you halfway up, ... You’ll find yourself in a 5,000-square-foot abandoned trolley station with the original wiring system overhead.” ...

The cast iron and terra cotta kiosk, located adjacent to the tram station, is one of five original kiosks at the Queensboro Bridge Trolley Station at Second Avenue and 59th Street. “It’s about the ...