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The LIRR's history stretches back to the Brooklyn and Jamaica Rail Road, incorporated on April 25, 1832 [2] [3] [4] [5] to build a ten-mile line from the East River in Brooklyn through the communities of Brooklyn, Bedford, and East New York to Jamaica.
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.
When LIRR subsidiary New York and Jamaica Railroad built a new line between Hunter's Point and Jamaica in 1861, the main line was relocated there, and the line was abandoned west of East New York, in compliance with Brooklyn's ban on steam railroads.
Established in 1834 (the first section between the Brooklyn waterfront and Jamaica opened on April 18, 1836) and having operated continuously since then, it is the oldest railroad in the United States still operating under its original name and charter.
The East New York station 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.
BROOKLYN, NY — The Long Island Rail Road won't run in Brooklyn as the MTA works on a maintenance project this weekend, transit officials announced. The LIRR will be suspended between Jamaica ...
The Brooklyn Manor station was a station on the Long Island Rail Road 's Rockaway Beach Branch located on the south side of Jamaica Avenue at 100th Street, straddling the border between Richmond Hill and Woodhaven in Queens, New York City.
The changes will also include more tracks, which means trains will be more easily re-routed to and from Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn. Shuttle trains will now be able to leave every 7 1/2 minutes ...
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 LIRR will also be deploying platform controllers at Jamaica station who will direct when Atlantic Terminal-bound trains depart and make sure that Brooklyn trains do not leave until another ...