Long Before Memorial Highway, a Railroad Cut Through What Is Now The LINC

Long before Robert Moses, Memorial Highway and Interstate 95, the New York, Westchester and Boston Railway carved a transportation corridor through New Rochelle, including the area now at the center of the LINC project. In a new Words in Edgewise historical inquiry, journalist Robert Cox traces the railroad’s origins in the 1870s, its operations from 1912 to 1937 and its dismantling during World War II. The article raises questions about how the Lincoln Avenue neighborhood developed before highway construction and invites readers to contribute historical photographs, maps and other records.

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