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The Jamaica station 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 MTA planned a new station in Sunnyside, Queens, once East Side Access was completed. [6] [7] The MTA later proposed in their 20-year needs assessment for 2025 to 2044 that Sunnyside station serve both the LIRR and the Metro-North Railroad, with the latter providing service to Penn Station after Penn Station Access is completed. [8]
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).
The present Jamaica station was designed by Kenneth M. Murchison [47] and built between 1912 and 1913 as a replacement for the two former stations in Jamaica. Both former stations were discontinued as station stops. The 1912–13 "Jamaica Improvement" was the final step in consolidating the branch lines of the LIRR.
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 ...
Employee-only station to serve the Morris Park Facility: Berlin: Berlin Junction: Dunton: 8.9 (14.3) [14] 1869 1939 Originally named Berlin, then Van Wyck Avenue 3 Jamaica, Queens Jamaica: 9.3 (15.0) [1] 1836 Long Island Rail Road: Atlantic Terminal shuttle, Babylon, Hempstead, Montauk, Oyster Bay, Port Jefferson, Ronkonkoma, West Hempstead ...
NEW YORK — Evening commutes from New York City to Long Island faced delays Thursday following a late-morning Long Island Rail Road derailment in Queens that injured 13 people, MTA officials said.
A LIRR train of M9 cars on Track 303. The station serves the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line, [8] which connects to all passenger branches and almost all stations. [9] Service started on January 25, 2023 with a shuttle to Jamaica station. [5] Full service at the station began on February 27, 2023, with trains continuing beyond Jamaica to most ...