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Rockaway Division
The Far Rockaway Branch is an electrified rail line and service owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York. The branch begins at Valley Interlocking, just east of Valley Stream station. From Valley Stream, the line heads south and southwest through southwestern Nassau County, ending at Far Rockaway in Queens, thus reentering New York City. LIRR maps and schedules indicate that the Far Rockaway Branch service continues west along the Atlantic Branch to Jamaica. This two-track branch provides all day service in both directions to the Atlantic Terminal (at Flatbush Avenue) in Brooklyn, with limited weekday peak service to/from Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan. During peak hours, express service may bypass Jamaica station. History Opening The South Side Railroad (SSRLI) built the branch in 1869 under a subsidiary called the Far Rockaway Branch Railroad. While constructing it in summer 1869, the company installed about 700 feet (200 m) of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City Subway
The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system owned by the government of New York City and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, an affiliate agency of the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Opened on October 27, 1904, the New York City Subway is one of the world's oldest public transit systems, one of the most-used, and the one with the most stations, with New York City Subway stations, 472 stations in operation (424 if stations connected by transfers are counted as single stations). Stations are located throughout the boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. The system has operated 24/7 service every day of the year throughout most of its history, barring emergencies and disasters. By annual ridership, the New York City Subway is the busiest rapid transit system in both the Western Hemisphere and the Western world, as well as the List of metro systems, seventh-busiest rapid transit rail system in the world. In , the subway deliv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlantic Terminal
Atlantic Terminal (formerly Flatbush Avenue) is the westernmost stop on the Long Island Rail Road's (LIRR) Atlantic Branch, located at Flatbush Avenue and Atlantic Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, New York City. It is the primary terminal for the Far Rockaway, Hempstead, and West Hempstead Branches. The terminal is located in the City Terminal Zone, the LIRR's Zone 1, and thus part of the CityTicket program. History The station was originally named ''Brooklyn'' in 1852, twenty years after the line was established as the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad, and was not originally a terminus. The original terminus was South Ferry, via the now shuttered Cobble Hill Tunnel. 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. West of East New York, the tracks were taken over by horse car line ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sea Side House (LIRR Station)
The Beach 105th Street station (signed as Beach 105th Street–Seaside station) is a station on the IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway, located at Beach 105th Street on the Rockaway Freeway in Queens. It is served by the Rockaway Park Shuttle at all times and ten daily rush-hour only A trains. It is the least-used station out of all 424 stations in the New York City Subway system, serving 88,439 passengers in 2019, an average of fewer than 250 people per day. History This station previously had six different names. It was originally opened by the Long Island Rail Road in 1880 as Seaside Station station (also an earlier name for Babylon) for the Rockaway Beach Branch at 102nd Street. It also included a trolley stop of the Ocean Electric Railway, as well as an OER spur to the Neponsit-Rockaway Beach Branch. A second station at Beach 104th Street became its replacement in April 1888, only to be burned on September 20, 1892. The third station was built in 1892 and bur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockaway Village Railroad
The Ocean Electric Railway was a street car line that operated on The Rockaways. It ran parallel to parts of the Rockaway Beach Branch and Far Rockaway Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. The headquarters of the OER were at the Far Rockaway Long Island Rail Road station which was then located across Mott Avenue from the existing Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue subway station. The Office of Superintendent - Trolleys at that location managed all the LIRR's owned trolley operations. History Rockaway Village Railroad The Ocean Electric Railway originated as the replacement for the Rockaway Village Railroad, a horse car line constructed by local businessmen. Like the RVR it was a Street Railway. It was chartered on April 28, 1897, although trolley services on the Rockaway Peninsula date as far back as 1881. Far Rockaway Railroad On March 18, 1898, the LIRR bought the Far Rockaway Railroad, a 1.1 mile horse-car line, and integrated it into the Ocean Electric. LIRR ownership The purpose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockaway Railway
Rockaway may refer to: Places in the United States *Rockaway Beach (other) New Jersey *Rockaway, New Jersey, a borough in Morris County *Rockaway Township, New Jersey, a township in Morris County *Rockaway Creek (New Jersey), a tributary of the Lamington River in Hunterdon County *Rockaway River, a tributary of the Passaic River New York *Rockaway, Queens, a peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens, on Long Island **Far Rockaway, Queens, a neighborhood on the Rockaway peninsula * Rockaway Avenue (other), subway stations in Brooklyn, New York City *Rockaway Boulevard, a boulevard in Southern Queens *Rockaway Inlet, a strait off Long Island, New York *Rockaway Parkway, a parkway in Brooklyn *East Rockaway, New York, a village in Nassau County on Long Island Elsewhere *Rockaway, Ohio, an unincorporated community *Rockaway Creek (California) Ships * , a United States Navy seaplane tender in commission from 1943 to 1946 * , a United States Coast Guard cutter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Side Pavilion (LIRR Station)
South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz'' ("south"), possibly related to the same Proto-Indo-European root that the word ''sun'' derived from. Some languages describe south in the same way, from the fact that it is the direction of the sun at noon (in the Northern Hemisphere), like Latin meridies 'noon, south' (from medius 'middle' + dies 'day', cf English meridional), while others describe south as the right-hand side of the rising sun, like Biblical Hebrew תֵּימָן teiman 'south' from יָמִין yamin 'right', Aramaic תַּימנַא taymna from יָמִין yamin 'right' and Syriac ܬܰܝܡܢܳܐ taymna from ܝܰܡܝܺܢܳܐ yamina (hence the name of Yemen, the land to the south/right of the Levant). Navigation By convention, the ''bottom or down-facing side'' of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Hempstead Branch
The Southern Hempstead Branch was a branch of the Long Island Rail Road from Valley Stream to Hempstead. It was established in 1870 and abandoned in May 1879, and is not the same route as the current West Hempstead Branch. History Hempstead residents were annoyed with the bad service provided by the LIRR on their Hempstead Branch, and planned the New York and Hempstead Plains Railroad, which was to cross the South Side Railroad at Valley Stream and end at the 65th Street Ferry in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, but only built east of Valley Stream. Prior to the establishment of the NY&H, the SSRLI established a short-lived subsidiary named the Hempstead and Rockaway Railroad designed to connect the Far Rockaway Branch Railroad to the Southern Hempstead Branch. The H&R was dissolved in 1871. There were also plans to extend the line eastward into what is today North Massapequa. Reliant on the South Side, the two companies often shared equipment. A railroad supplier named Pusey became preside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hempstead And Rockaway Railroad
Hempstead may refer to: Places England *Hempstead, Essex *Hempstead, Kent * Hempstead, near Holt, Norfolk *Hempstead, near Stalham, Norfolk *Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire United States *Hempstead, New York (other), multiple places in New York named Hempstead *Hempstead, Texas *Hempstead County, Arkansas * Hempstead High School (other), several high schools Other uses * USS ''Hempstead'', the name of more than one proposed United States Navy ship People with the surname *Edward Hempstead (1780–1817), American lawyer and pioneer *Harry Hempstead (1868–1938), American owner of the New York Giants from 1912 to 1919 *Hessley Hempstead (1972–2021), American football player *Isaac William Hempstead (Isaac Hempstead Wright, born 1999), English actor *Stephen P. Hempstead (1812–1883), American politician See also *Heemstede, North Holland *Hempsted, Gloucester, England *Hemsted Park, Kent, England – historically sometimes known as Hempsted Park *Hamstead (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence, Nassau County, New York
Lawrence is a Administrative divisions of New York#Village, village in Nassau County, New York, Nassau County, New York (state), New York, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the village population was 6,483. The Village of Lawrence is in the southwestern corner of the Town of Hempstead, New York, Town of Hempstead, adjoining the border with the New York City borough of Queens to the west and near the Atlantic Ocean to the south. Lawrence is one of the "Five Towns", which consists of the villages of Lawrence and Cedarhurst, New York, Cedarhurst, the hamlets (unincorporated areas) of Woodmere, New York, Woodmere and Inwood, New York, Inwood, and "The Hewletts", which is made up of the hamlet of Hewlett, New York, Hewlett together with the villages of Hewlett Bay Park, New York, Hewlett Bay Park, Hewlett Harbor, New York, Hewlett Harbor and Hewlett Neck, New York, Hewlett Neck, along with Woodsburgh, New York, Woodsburgh. Old Lawrence Old Lawrence, or Back Lawrenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LIRR M7 7508 Far Rockaway
The Long Island Rail Road , often abbreviated as the LIRR, is a commuter rail system in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of New York, stretching from Manhattan to the eastern tip of Suffolk County on Long Island. With an average weekday ridership of 354,800 passengers in 2016, it is the busiest commuter railroad in North America. It is also one of the world's few commuter systems that runs 24/7 year-round. It is publicly owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which refers to it as MTA Long Island Rail Road. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . The LIRR logo combines the circular MTA logo with the text ''Long Island Rail Road'', and appears on the sides of trains. The LIRR is one of two commuter rail systems owned by the MTA, the other being the Metro-North Railroad in the northern suburbs of the New York area. Established in 1834 and having operated continuously since then, it is the oldest railroad in the United States still ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockaway Branches
Rockaway may refer to: Places in the United States *Rockaway Beach (other) New Jersey *Rockaway, New Jersey, a borough in Morris County *Rockaway Township, New Jersey, a township in Morris County *Rockaway Creek (New Jersey), a tributary of the Lamington River in Hunterdon County *Rockaway River, a tributary of the Passaic River New York *Rockaway, Queens, a peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens, on Long Island **Far Rockaway, Queens, a neighborhood on the Rockaway peninsula *Rockaway Avenue (other), subway stations in Brooklyn, New York City *Rockaway Boulevard, a boulevard in Southern Queens *Rockaway Inlet, a strait off Long Island, New York *Rockaway Parkway, a parkway in Brooklyn *East Rockaway, New York, a village in Nassau County on Long Island Elsewhere *Rockaway, Ohio, an unincorporated community *Rockaway Creek (California) Ships * , a United States Navy seaplane tender in commission from 1943 to 1946 * , a United States Coast Guard cutter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamaica (LIRR Station)
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, 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. It is the third-busiest rail hub in the New York area, behind Penn Station and Grand Central Terminal. Over 1,000 trains pass through each day, the fourth-most in the New York area behind Penn Station, Grand Central Terminal, and Secaucus Junction. The Jamaica station is located on an embankment above street level and contains six platforms and ten tracks for LIRR trains. A concourse above the LIRR platforms connects to a station on the AirTrain JFK elevated people mover to John F. Kennedy International Airport, which contains two tracks and one platform. There are also connections to the Archer Avenue lines of the New York City Subway at a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
