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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]
[25]: 17.3 On the southeast corner, two escalators (one up, one down) and a staircase lead to street level, just outside the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR)'s Jamaica station. Additional staircases lead from street level to each of the LIRR platform. Three elevators provide access to the street level and the LIRR station's main mezzanine areas.
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).
Certain variants exist to show different services on each branch: Mountauk west also includes Patchogue and Speonk as eastern terminals; Mountauk mid also includes Speonk as an eastern terminal
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 ...
The Long Island Rail Road was chartered in 1834 to extend the line east to Greenport. [2] When the Brooklyn and Jamaica was completed on April 18, 1836, its line was operated by the LIRR under lease. The original line ran from South Ferry on the Brooklyn waterfront east to a depot at the current 158th Street in Jamaica, with a ferry connection ...
The Crescent Street station is a station on the BMT Jamaica Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Crescent and Fulton Streets in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn , it is served by the J train at all times and the Z during rush hours in the peak direction.