Little Village on the Plains
In 1915 or so, if you lived in Hicksville and you wanted to visit your friend Hattie in Mineola, or your cousins in Manhasset, you could walk down to Depot Square (the triangle formed where Jerusalem Avenue met Broadway) and wait by the tracks - for a trolley! Since 1909, following the route shown above, a trolley line had been taking people back and forth. This is the story of that line, the New York and North Shore, of how it came to be, and of how it came to an end.
collection of Mark Thomas, HHS Class of 1975; used with permission
(above)The spire of St. Ignatius church rises in the distance. The Grand Central Hotel of 1835 stands on the left; between the painted tree trunks in the center of the photo, one can make out the edge of the railroad tracks adjacent to the crossing at Broadway. The sign on the trolley car reads simply Mineola Hicksville.
