Transcription error in the 1980s from a map from the 1960s leads to incorrect "populated place" being given to a "location" that was a factory with a train station.

Good 'ole Garbage In, Garbage Out at work.

I think this public-data sleuthing article is a piece of beauty, and I'm somewhat willing to accept the occasional transcription errors if this is the result.

I clicked expecting an article about the Cordwainer Smith story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanners_Live_in_Vain

So did I!

I was half-expecting that HN would have greater appreciation of CS' writings than the general population...

or could it be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street ?

These location names seem to be sourced from anywhere at all, without regard for verification. Around here, sometimes this surfaces ancient neighborhoods which haven't existed for a century, sometimes a marketing label which is referenced on the web a lot, and sometimes some non-Euclidean weirdness breaches the surface.

Previous post (15 days):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20624568

Reactivate the damn Lower Montauk!

but who is Haberman? and why has a train station been named after him/her

His 1927 obituary is here: https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altU...