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The station house. Great Neck is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch in the Village of Great Neck Plaza, Nassau County, New York.The station is located at Middle Neck Road (CR 11) and Station Plaza at Great Neck Road, 0.25 miles (0.40 km) north of Northern Boulevard (NY 25A) and 15.9 miles (25.6 km) from Pennsylvania Station in Midtown Manhattan.
The Port Washington Branch is an electrified, mostly double-tracked rail line and service owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York.It branches north from the Main Line at the former Winfield Junction station, just east of the Woodside station in the New York City borough of Queens, and runs roughly parallel to Northern Boulevard past Mets-Willets Point ...
Little Neck is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch, in the Little Neck neighborhood of Queens, New York City. The station is located at Little Neck Parkway and 39th Road, about half a mile (800 m) north of Northern Boulevard (NY 25A) .
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 station was remodeled in 1930, and again in 1998 upon the station's 100th Anniversary. [5] On August 3, 1946, a head-on train crash at the station resulted in two deaths and 27 injuries. [6] On October 14, 1947, the rear car of a New York-bound train backing into the station crashed into the bumper block at approximately 8:12 AM. [7]
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to bring Metro-North Railroad commuter trains to Penn Station as part of its Penn Station Access project. The East Side Access project, which was completed in 2023, has freed up track and platform space at Penn Station by redirecting some LIRR trains from Penn Station to Grand Central Madison.
The station sits beneath Grand Central Terminal, which serves the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)'s Metro-North Railroad. [7] Grand Central Madison was built to reduce travel times to and from Manhattan's East Side and to ease congestion at Penn Station, the West Side station where all Manhattan-bound LIRR trains had terminated ...
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.