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Hicksville is a commuter rail station on the Main Line and Port Jefferson Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, located in Hicksville, New York. It is the busiest station east of Jamaica, Penn Station, and Grand Central Madison by combined weekday/weekend ridership. The station is located at Newbride Road (NY 106) and West Barclay
With 324 passenger route-miles, [3] it spans Long Island from Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn to Montauk station at the tip of the southern fork. 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".
Hicksville was founded accidentally when a financial depression brought the LIRR to a stop at Broadway, Hicksville. The station slowly grew and though it started as a train station, it turned into a hotel then a real estate deal, [3] even becoming a depot for produce, particularly cucumbers for a Heinz Company plant. After a blight destroyed ...
The West Side Yard (officially the John D. Caemmerer West Side Yard) is a rail yard of 30 tracks owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on the west side of Manhattan in New York City. Used to store commuter rail trains operated by the subsidiary Long Island Rail Road , the 26.17-acre (10.59 ha) yard sits between West 30th Street ...
The Long Island City station is a rail terminal of the Long Island Rail Road in the Hunters Point and Long Island City neighborhoods of Queens, New York City.Located within the City Terminal Zone at Borden Avenue and Second Street, it is the westernmost LIRR station in Queens and the end of both the Main Line and Montauk Branch.
St. John's Park Depot 1868–1935 Spring Street Depot, 1934-?, as new High Line terminus Harlem River and Port Chester Railroad Harlem River Terminal 1866–1931 New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad: 1917–present (under Amtrak) 1871–present (under Metro-North) Somewhere in downtown Manhattan 1849–1871 Morris and Essex Railroad
The Main Line has one track from just east of Long Island City, where it splits into two tracks just before Borden Avenue, which continue through Hunterspoint Avenue station to Harold Interlocking (HAROLD, 0.6 miles (0.97 km) northwest of the Woodside station), where the four track Northeast Corridor from Penn Station in Manhattan joins the Main Line after passing through the East River ...
New York and Rockaway Beach, tracks, 7.16 miles, from Long Island City to Glendale Junction and tracks, 7.12 miles, from Woodhaven Junction to Flatbush Avenue, used under agreement dated Sept. 1, 1887, modified July 1, 1911, and in effect on date of valuation; revenue derived from business passing over lines of both companies is divided on a ...