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As of February 27, 2023, the Atlantic Terminal, Nostrand Avenue, and East New York stations are primarily served by a shuttle running between Atlantic Terminal and Jamaica. These stations are also served by trains on the West Hempstead Branch, as well as a limited number of weekday trains on the Hempstead and Babylon branches.
Atlantic Terminal (AT) – Trains that travel along the Atlantic Branch to Brooklyn. Long Island City (LIC) – Trains that serve Hunterspoint Avenue and Long Island City in Queens. These trains also use the Main Line west of Jamaica, but typically skip Woodside, Forest Hills, and Kew Gardens. This route is served only during weekday rush hours ...
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 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.
West of St. Albans, all trains terminate at Atlantic Terminal, Grand Central Madison, Jamaica, or Penn Station. [21] [22] During weekdays, most trains terminate at Atlantic Terminal, Grand Central Madison, and Penn Station, with one eastbound shuttle between Jamaica and St. Albans originating at Jamaica. During weekends and holidays, all trains ...
LIRR maps and schedules show Hempstead Branch service continuing west along the Main Line to Jamaica. Hempstead Branch trains provide most service at Hollis and Queens Village . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The line is double tracked to just east of Garden City Station, where it is reduced to one track at Garden Interlocking for the final 1.4 miles (2.3 km) to ...
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 ...
When the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad opened in April 1836, under lease to the LIRR, [4]: 44 it did not include a station at East New York. [5] The LIRR began stopping at East New York by early 1843, [ 6 ] eventually stopping at the Howard House at Alabama Avenue, shared with all the other horse car and steam lines into East New York. [ 7 ]