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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.
East Side Access (ESA) is a public works project in New York City that extended the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) two miles from its Main Line in Queens to the new Grand Central Madison station under Grand Central Terminal on Manhattan's East Side.
The Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center station (originally Atlantic Avenue station) on the BMT Brighton Line has two tracks and an island platform. [ 5 ] : 6 [ 184 ] : 25 The Q train stops at the station at all times, [ 192 ] while the B train stops here on weekdays during the day. [ 193 ]
An agreement for the first phase was reached in early 2019, and a groundbreaking ceremony took place in December 2022. New Haven Line trains are tentatively expected to run into Penn Station in 2027. The opening of East Side Access will allow the expanded services to operate at Moynihan Train Hall, an expansion of Penn Station.
The existing station house continues to provide alternate access to the LIRR and Amtrak, particularly at night, when Moynihan Train Hall is closed. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] Plans also call for the facility to serve the Metro-North Railroad , the main commuter railroad for New York City's northern suburbs, when the Penn Station Access project is complete.
Portions of the James Farley Post Office were adaptively reused and converted to a new head house for Penn Station, called Moynihan Train Hall, which houses Amtrak and the Long Island Rail Road. [ 74 ] [ 75 ] The first phase, consisting of new exits, a connection to the New York City Subway at 34th Street and Eighth Avenue , and an expanded ...
34th Street–Penn Station is an express station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of 34th Street and Eighth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. It is served by the A and E trains at all times, and by the C train at all times except late nights.
The Moynihan Station project would expand Penn Station into the James Farley Post Office building across the street; the first phase, consisting of the west end concourse, opened in June 2017. [42] Ground for the second phase was broken in August 2017, [43] and Moynihan Train Hall opened in January 2021. [44]