As an attempt to make sense of my findings and to answer why Rosario Dawson seems to be denied a mixed-race subjectivity by mainstream U.S. audiences, I turn to the work of Angharad N. Valdivia (2004).
The Long Island Rail Road system is made up of eleven passenger branches. Three main trunk lines, the Main Line, Montauk Branch, and Atlantic Branch, spin off eight smaller branches.
From Long Island City, Queens (which is located at the edge of the East River, directly across from Manhattan) to Montauk is approximately 2 hours and 45 minutes to 3 hours on the Long Island Railroad (the LIRR). From Penn Station in Manhattan to Montauk is approximately 3 hours to 3 hours and 15 minutes.