New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the Un ...

is extensively served by passenger railroads, with limited facilities available for freight railroads.

Amtrak The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak () , is the national passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates inter-city rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous U.S. States and nine cities in Canada ...

, Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad all own and operate passenger

yards The yard (symbol: yd) is an English unit of length in both the British imperial and US customary systems of measurement equalling 3 feet or 36 inches. Since 1959 it has been by international agreement standardized as exactly ...

in New York City. There are also many yards operated by the New York City Subway system. ''See''

List of New York City Subway yards The New York City Transit Authority operates a total of 24 rail yards for the New York City Subway system, and one for the Staten Island Railway. There are 10 active A Division yards and 11 active B Division yards, two of which are shared bet ...

. CSX Transportation and

New York & Atlantic Railway The New York and Atlantic Railway (NY&A) is a short line railroad formed in 1997 to provide freight service over the tracks of the Long Island Rail Road, a public commuter rail agency which had decided to privatize its freight operations. An a ...

own and operate freight yards in the city. Furthermore, there are rail yards on property owned by the city of New York, but leased to freight railroads including

New York New Jersey Rail New York New Jersey Rail, LLC is a switching and terminal railroad that operates the only car float operation across Upper New York Bay between Jersey City, New Jersey and Brooklyn, New York. Since mid-November 2008, it has been owned by t ...

. ''See'' Rail freight transportation in New York City and Long Island.

Manhattan

West Side Yard The West Side Yard (officially the John D. Caemmerer West Side Yard) is a rail yard of 30 tracks owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on the west side of Manhattan in New York City. Used to store commuter rail trains operated by t ...

- A coach yard owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road. Built in the 1980s between 31st and 33rd St on the site of a New York Central

freight yard A rail yard, railway yard, railroad yard (US) or simply yard, is a series of tracks in a rail network for storing, sorting, or loading and unloading rail vehicles and locomotives. Yards have many tracks in parallel for keeping rolling stock or u ...

, it is the only active railroad yard in Manhattan, excluding the subway system.

Queens

Sunnyside Yard Sunnyside Yard is a large coach yard, a railroad yard for passenger cars, in Sunnyside, Queens in New York City. Description The yard is owned by Amtrak and is also used by New Jersey Transit. The shared tracks of the Long Island Rail Road (LIR ...

- The largest railroad yard in New York City. It is owned and operated by

, but also used by

NJ Transit New Jersey Transit Corporation, branded as NJ Transit, and often shortened to NJT, is a state-owned public transportation system that serves the U.S. state of New Jersey, along with portions of New York State and Pennsylvania. It operates bu ...

. Now a passenger coach yard, it formerly also had a freight section (LIRR "Yard A") that was closed to make room for the

East Side Access East Side Access (ESA) is a public works project in New York City that extended the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) from its Main Line in Queens into a new station under Grand Central Terminal on Manhattan's East Side. A project of the Metropol ...

project. * Fresh Pond Junction - The primary freight yard on Long Island, operated by the New York & Atlantic RailwayFresh Pond Junction (TrainsAreFun.com)
/ref> * Hillside Facility - Owned and operated by the LIRR. *

Morris Park Facility The Morris Park Facility is a maintenance facility of the Long Island Rail Road in Queens, New York City. It includes two employee-only side platforms on the Atlantic Branch named Boland's Landing. Two wooden platforms each 2 cars long exist on t ...

- Owned and operated by the LIRR. * Glendale Yard - Owned by the LIRR, operated by the New York & Atlantic Railway. * Arch Street Yard- Owned by the LIRR but which services both LIRR and Metro-North equipment. Also has a freight terminal for New York & Atlantic Railway. * Bayside Yard - Small LIRR maintenance yard usually used to stage equipment and supplies for track work. Located at 40-30 219th St, Flushing, NY 11361

Brooklyn

Bush Terminal Industry City (also Bush Terminal) is a historic intermodal shipping, warehousing, and manufacturing complex on the Upper New York Bay waterfront in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. The northern portion, commonly cal ...

– Yard for freight traveling by

car float A railroad car float or rail barge is a specialised form of lighter with railway tracks mounted on its deck used to move rolling stock across water obstacles, or to locations they could not otherwise go. An unpowered barge, it is towed by a t ...

across New York Harbor via

New York New Jersey Rail, LLC New York New Jersey Rail, LLC is a switching and terminal railroad that operates the only car float operation across Upper New York Bay between Jersey City, New Jersey and Brooklyn, New York. Since mid-November 2008, it has been owned by t ...

. , the yard is no longer in service and the car float has been transferred to 65th Street Yard. *

65th Street Yard The 65th Street Yard, also Bay Ridge Rail Yard, is a rail yard on the Upper New York Bay in Sunset Park and Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Equipped with two transfer bridges which allow rail cars to be loaded and unloaded onto car floats, the last ...

– Rebuilt by the City of New York Economic Development Corp. It was operated by NY&A, but the transfer bridges were unused. In July 2012, operation of the yard was leased to NYNJ Rail, and transfer bridges were placed in service. * Vanderbilt Yards – LIRR yard near the

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 th ...

, the western terminus of the

Atlantic Branch The Atlantic Branch is an electrified rail line owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York. It is the only LIRR line with revenue passenger service in the borough of Brooklyn. The line consists of two sectio ...

railroad. It is bounded by Atlantic Avenue to the north, Carlton Avenue to the east, Pacific Street to the south, and 5th Avenue to the west. The Barclays Center was built over it. It is also the site of

Pacific Park Pacific Park is an oceanfront amusement park located in Santa Monica, California. The park, located on the Santa Monica Pier, looks directly out on the Pacific Ocean, in the direction of Catalina Island. It is the only amusement park directly l ...

mixed-use commercial and residential development project.

Bronx

Oak Point Yard The Oak Point Yard is a freight railroad yard located in the South Bronx, New York City. The yard is owned by CSX Transportation, and is a base for CSX's local deliveries in the area, including to the Hunts Point Cooperative Market and for trai ...

- The second largest yard in New York City (after Sunnyside Yard) and the largest freight yard. Owned and operated by CSX Transportation, the yard supports Hunts Point Cooperative Market. *

Harlem River Intermodal Yard Harlem River Yards (also known as Harlem River Yard Oak Point Link The Oak Point Link, also known as the South Bronx–Oak Point Link, is a long railroad line in the Bronx, New York City, United States, along the east bank of the Harlem River. It connects the Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line (on the Spuyten ...

, but mostly used for waste handling. * Highbridge Facility - Owned and operated by Metro-North Railroad.

Staten Island

Arlington Yard Arlington Yard is a freight yard located on the North Shore Branch right of way of the Staten Island Railway in Staten Island, New York, United States. It lies west of the former Arlington station, east of Western Avenue, and north of the St ...

- Freight yard along the former Staten Island Railway North Shore branch. Connects to the

Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge The Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Railroad Bridge is a rail vertical-lift bridge connecting Elizabethport, New Jersey and the Howland Hook Marine Terminal on Staten Island, New York, United States. The bridge was built by the Baltimore and Ohio Rai ...

and services the

New York Container Terminal The Howland Hook Marine Terminal, operating as ‘’’GCT New York,’’’ is a container port facility in the Port of New York and New Jersey located at Howland Hook in northwestern Staten Island, New York City. It is situated on the eas ...

and the Staten Island Transfer Station.

References

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