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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 Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer station (formerly the Jamaica Center–Parsons Boulevard station and sometimes shortened as the Jamaica Center station) is the northern terminal station of the IND and BMT Archer Avenue Lines of the New York City Subway, located at Parsons Boulevard and Archer Avenue in Jamaica, Queens.
The LIRR has an amalgam of different station house designs across its system. Many station houses built during the same time period (e.g., Mineola and Manhasset; 1920s), or as part of the same project (e.g., Central Islip and Deer Park; 1987 Hicksville–Ronkonkoma electrification project), share similar or identical designs.
The delays could continue to Friday as the LIRR works to repair the damage around the Hall Interlocking, about a half-mile east of Jamaica station, said MTA chair and CEO Janno Lieber. All eight ...
Toronto Union Station: 72.410 [7] Toronto Canada: Amtrak, GO Transit, Union Pearson Express, Via Rail: 12 (16 tracks) Toronto streetcar, Toronto subway: 3: Grand Central Terminal: 67.326 [8] New York City United States: Metro-North Railroad: 44 (67 tracks) New York City Subway, Long Island Rail Road: 4: Jamaica Station: 59.803 [9] New York City ...
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.
[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.
The Sutphin Boulevard station is a local station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway.Located at Sutphin Boulevard and Hillside Avenue in Jamaica, Queens, it is served by the F train at all times, the <F> train during rush hours in the reverse peak direction, and a few rush-hour E trains to Jamaica–179th Street during p.m. rush hours.