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It was rebuilt again in June 1880. The headquarters for the Long Island Express Company was installed there in 1882, and gave the station a series of tracks that would later be known as the "EX Yard." In 1888, the Union Elevated Railway built an elevated railway line and station that connected to the LIRR station called the Atlantic Avenue station.
Woodhaven Junction power substation. The current Atlantic Branch is the successor to two separate lines: the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad (opened 1836) along Atlantic Avenue from Flatbush Avenue to Jamaica, and the South Side Railroad of Long Island (opened 1867) from Jamaica to Valley Stream.
The stop lies directly above the Long Island Rail Road's East New York station, which is located in the median of Atlantic Avenue. Plans for the Interborough Express, a light rail line using the Bay Ridge Branch right of way, were announced in 2023. [7]
With 324 passenger route-miles, [3] it spans Long Island from Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn to Montauk station at the tip of the southern fork. 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".
The Fourth Avenue Line station runs in a southwest-northeast direction under Fourth Avenue. The Eastern Parkway Line station runs in a northwest-southeast direction under Flatbush Avenue, next to the Long Island Rail Road's Atlantic Terminal, while the Brighton Line platform runs almost precisely north-south under the terminal.
East New York is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Atlantic Branch in the East New York and Ocean Hill neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York City, where that branch passes through the Jamaica Pass. It is generally served by the West Hempstead Branch and the City Terminal Zone Atlantic Branches of the LIRR.
Nostrand Avenue is an elevated station on the Long Island Rail Road's Atlantic Branch in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.Trains leave every 12–15 minutes during peak hours and 30 minutes during off-peak hours until 11 p.m.
Long Island City, Queens: Long Island City: New York City Subway: 7 and <7> (at Vernon Boulevard-Jackson Avenue) MTA Bus: Q103 NYC Ferry: East River Hunterspoint Avenue: New York City Subway: 7 and <7> (at Hunters Point Avenue), G (at 21st Street) New York City Bus: B62 MTA Bus: Q67 Woodside, Queens: Woodside: Long Island Rail Road: Port ...