Cypress Avenue Station, Glendale, Queens

The Bay Ridge Line crosses into Queens over Cooper Avenue and Wycoff Avenue on a 96-foot steel girder bridge from 1913, leaving the cemetery behind to the southeast. The IRT Canarsie Line (L train) goes underground at this point, crossing under the Bay Ridge Line and heading northwest under Wycoff Avenue. St. Felix Avenue parallels the east side of the line for a few blocks.

A station here on the Bay Ridge Line opened in 1883, with the name changed to Ridgewood in 1884 and to Cypress Avenue Station in 1891. The bridge is an 85-foot steel stringer built in 1913. There is a bricked-in arch in the bridge wall that seems to have been a stairway up to the station platform. A picture from 1914 shows the elevated line through the area with no station house and, presumably, an at-grade boarding area.

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Cooper Avenue Bridge
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Closeup of Cooper Avenue Bridge abutment
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BIN 7705190
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Evergreens Cemetery
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Evergreens Cemetery
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Cooper Avenue Bridge
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Service stairway up to the track off St. Felix Avenue
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Cypress Avenue Bridge
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BIN 7705180
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Gas pipeline under the bridge
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Bricked-in stairway leading up to the old station platform?
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Cypress Avenue Bridge viewed from the west
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Art Deco warehouse - 1626-1630 Cody Street, south of Cypress
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Art Deco warehouse
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Art Deco warehouse
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Art Deco warehouse
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Art Deco warehouse
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Art Deco warehouse
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Art Deco warehouse
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Seneca Avenue Bridge (BIN 7705170?)
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Hopper cars parked on the Seneca Avenue Bridge
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1913 year marker on trestle
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Seneca Avenue Bridge
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Old houses along St. Felix Avenue
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PS 68
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PS 68
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60th Street at St. Felix Avenue
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Evergreen Park
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Evergreen Park
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Art deco seating stands in Evergreen Park
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Row houses on 60th Place
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Row houses on 60th Place
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Row houses on 75th Avenue
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The 75th Avenue Bridge (BIN 7705160?)
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Broken Jersey barrier near curve under the 75th Ave. Bridge
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Box cars parked on the 75th Ave. Bridge
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1913 mark on trestle
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75th Avenue Bridge
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Row houses on 75th Avenue
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Row houses on 75th Avenue at 60th Lane
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Rusting cornice on 75th Avenue
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Sidewalk and retaining wall on 60th Lane

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