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Re: Significant part of former LIRR Wading River Branch to become rail trail |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Mon Apr 13 13:08:41 2009, in response to Re: Significant part of former LIRR Wading River Branch to become rail trail, posted by trainsarefun on Mon Apr 13 12:45:15 2009. While some commuters may have patronized those KO establishments, their numbers certainly weren't anything like the numbers now. That said, however, some percentage of that much smaller ridership number is larger, perhaps far larger, than the almost zero fraction of the much larger ridership number currently seen.Most of those stores were vacant with in a couple years of Ronkonkoma becoming mayhem. While they survived prior, they died after. The stores are widely vacant, and the few stores occupying is a dive bar (that has been one incarnation after another), and a business like that would be effected by the station either way. There's nothing there around the station, and what little was there, got worse. In Ronkonkoma, what has mostly changed is that land that was meadow and bush is now covered with asphalt. Atop the asphalt though are not businesses and homes but....cars. Correct, and that is as I was saying "just the station are itself". The community itself hasn't changed much at all. The big changes in Nassau and Suffolk have largely been demographically driven changes in population, e.g., Brentwood/Central Islip, based more on the affordability of housing stock than what LIRR did or didn't do. Absolutely, that is correct. The population shifts in Central Islip and Brentwood is mainly caused by the "Hispanicization" of those towns, which started well before the LIRR came to town. It was based on affordability, not anything the lIRR did or didn't do. Again, Wyandanch is the same crappy neighborhood it always was. Deer Park may have shifted too, as it's one of the last "affodable" yet good and stable working class neighborhoods that far west. it's probably very similar demographically to Shirley, although with better housing stock. |
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