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The MTA planned a new station in Sunnyside, Queens, once East Side Access was completed. [6] [7] The MTA later proposed in their 20-year needs assessment for 2025 to 2044 that Sunnyside station serve both the LIRR and the Metro-North Railroad, with the latter providing service to Penn Station after Penn Station Access is completed. [8]
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.
Work on the station started on July 15, 1982, [4]: 14 and opened along with the rest of the Archer Avenue Line on December 11, 1988. [5] [6] In 2003, when the AirTrain opened, this station was renamed as Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue–JFK Airport, as the station connects with the AirTrain at Jamaica Station. [7]
The Main Line has one track from just east of Long Island City, where it splits into two tracks just before Borden Avenue, which continue through Hunterspoint Avenue station to Harold Interlocking (HAROLD, 0.6 miles (0.97 km) northwest of the Woodside station), where the four track Northeast Corridor from Penn Station in Manhattan joins the Main Line after passing through the East River ...
The Jamaica–179th Street station is an express terminal station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway. Located under Hillside Avenue at 179th Street 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.
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 ...
Before the September 11 attacks, Lower Manhattan was the third largest central business district in the United States.As of 2007, it was the fourth largest, behind Midtown Manhattan, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. [5] Many commuters take the LIRR to Atlantic Terminal and transfer to a Manhattan-bound subway or take the LIRR to Penn Station and transfer to a subway heading downtown to reach ...
To compensate for the lack of through service to Brooklyn and to allow for cross-platform-transfers at Jamaica for Brooklyn-bound customers, off-peak West Hempstead trains stopped serving Valley Stream and began running hourly through to Atlantic Terminal with peak trains now serving both Penn Station and Grand Central Terminal as of February ...