Thanks for sharing this with us all, the NYWB had to be a classic example of something that was done right, that seemingly should have ended up on top of the world, and yet failed. I can see the guy who was the head of it thinking to himself sarcastically, "where did I go right?". I have heard various stories why it never had the ridership it should have, some argue it was built too early, before the mass movement to the suburbs had happened which might have made it successful, other arguments was that pinning its hopes on commuters being willing to switch to the subway at 180th street and finish the run on the subway was kind of foolish (rather than using New Haven tracks into NYC), others blame the fortunes of the parent company for its fate. Almost nothing I have read about the line blames it never getting out of Westchester, let alone to Boston, as a cause, and I think that is true, that running a relatively long distance route to Boston likely would not have saved the line.
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