34th Street Ferry was a station on the 34th Street Shuttle that branched off of the IRT Third Avenue Line. The elevated spur operated from July 1, 1880 to July 14, 1930. Located on the east side of First Avenue, the station had two tracks and one island platform. It served the 34th Street Ferry Terminal, which provided connecting services to the Long Island Rail Road's passenger terminal in Long Island City.
The next stop on the shuttle was Second Avenue.
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And the pavement is a nice, bluish slate-gray. People laugh a lot.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
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