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An 1882 map of the Long Island Rail Road. Hoping to build a line from Bay Ridge through East New York to Valley Stream, in 1870, the New York and Hempstead Railroad was incorporated. The line was leased by the South Side Railroad after two years of grading and excavating, but because of the financial panic of 1873 the project was drawn to a halt.
Long Island Rail Road: Atlantic Terminal shuttle, West Hempstead Branch, Babylon Branch (limited service), Hempstead Branch (limited service) New York City Subway: A and C (at Nostrand Avenue) New York City Bus: B25, B44, B44 SBS, B65, B49 Brooklyn Avenue: 1877 [13] before 1890 [17] Kingston Avenue: Albany Avenue: 1877 [13] before 1890: Troy ...
The City Terminal Zone is the set of Long Island Rail Road lines within New York City west of Jamaica station, except the Port Washington Branch. Routes [ edit ]
The MTA's Long Island Rail Road operates commuter trains to the Grand Central Madison station beneath Grand Central, completed in 2023 in the East Side Access project. [19] The project connects the terminal to all of the railroad's branches via its Main Line, [20] linking Grand Central Madison to almost every LIRR station. [21]
The Prospect Park and South Brooklyn Railroad connected the Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad (Culver Line) to the South Brooklyn Railroad in 1890, and the latter was bought by the Long Island Rail Road in 1893. The LIRR obtained the South Brooklyn Railway & Terminal Company lease on the land in 1897 and used steam powered locomotives. [2]
The first phase of what is now known as the Oyster Bay Branch opened on January 23, 1865. The line was built by the Glen Cove Branch Rail Road, a subsidiary of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), which was incorporated on December 3, 1858. [5] The line was built as a branch of the LIRR's Main Line from Mineola, and extended to Glen Head. [6]
The Mineola Intermodal Center is an intermodal center and transportation hub in the village of Mineola, Nassau County, New York, U.S.It contains the Mineola Long Island Rail Road station – one of the railroad's busiest stations – in addition to one of the Nassau Inter-County Express bus system's main hubs, located adjacent to the southern train platform.
The Bushwick Branch, also called the Bushwick Lead Track, is a freight railroad branch in New York City.It runs from the East Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn to Fresh Pond Junction in the Glendale neighborhood of Queens, where it connects with the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road.