Finding out the location	easy
Access	very easy
Safety	safe
Risk of being seen	high
General condition of the place	good
Traces of vandalism	very many
Good place for taking pictures?	very good
Did you see other people?	none or very few

Visit date    July 19 2020 at 2 hr
Visit duration    1 hour

so this is called the montauk cutoff in queens , essentially an abandoned long island railroad line left to rot . this has been abandoned since the 1910s or so i believe , theres been very plans to revive this line but most preferably not . access was very easy for the most part , you have to go thru a garden that has tracks leading to the cutoff . coolest thing is that theres an abandoned train hiding in the yard that’s accessible but try your best not be caught . it was a 10/10 in my opinion . as seen in 1908 , the area was filled with train tracks serving the docks , factories , and warehouses of long island city . the road running diagonally on this street grid is jackson avenue , the westernmost segment of new york state route 25A , which ends its 73-mile run near the north fork of long island . but in its last three decades of operation , freight usage greatly declined and passenger trains no longer needed it for turning around . the MTA sought to divest itself of the costly tracks and nature slowly reclaimed the montauk cutoff.

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