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Jamaica is a major train station of the Long Island Rail Road located in Jamaica, Queens, New York City.With weekday ridership exceeding 200,000 passengers, [8] it is the largest transit hub on Long Island, the fourth-busiest rail station in North America, and the second-busiest station that exclusively serves commuter traffic.
The City Terminal Zone formerly included the Lower Montauk Branch from Long Island City to Jamaica until passenger service on that route was discontinued in November 2012. This line formerly included Penny Bridge , Haberman , Fresh Pond , Glendale , and Richmond Hill stations until they were closed in March 1998.
Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan is the actual westernmost station of the Long Island Rail Road and its busiest station. The system currently has 126 stations on eleven rail lines called "branches". [1] [4] (Not included in this count are two additional stations that serve employees of the LIRR: Hillside Facility and Boland's Landing).
This is a route-map template for a Long Island Rail Road (Montauk Branch) line segment.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
The Lower Manhattan–Jamaica/JFK Transportation Project was a proposed public works project in New York City, New York, that would use the Long Island Rail Road's Atlantic Branch and a new tunnel under the East River to connect a new train station near or at the World Trade Center Transportation Hub site with John F. Kennedy International Airport and Jamaica station on the LIRR.
A promise to build a new LIRR station in Sunnyside to provide access to Penn Station was quietly abandoned by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration in 2016 as the East Side Access project to ...
The platforms, as viewed looking east from the 61st Street–Woodside station. Woodside originally had two railroad stations. One was built in 1861 on 60th Street by the LIRR subsidiary New York and Jamaica Railroad; the other, larger station was built by the Flushing and North Side Railroad on November 15, 1869, and was the first to be built by the F&NS after acquiring the troubled New York ...
A large fire broke out at a recycling center east of the Long Island Rail Road’s Jamaica Station on Friday, March 16, knocking out service to four of the service’s lines. The Queens, New York ...