City Terminal Zone

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The City Terminal Zone is the name given to a collection of rail lines of the Long Island Rail Road in New York City. Specifically, it refers to all stations that lie in Fare Zone 1 (except for Shea Stadium on the Port Washington Branch), which are stations west of Jamaica Station.

[edit] Stations

Routes1
ML	PW	HP	MT	AT	Station / Location	Station link	Mi (km) to Penn Station	Connections/Notes
					Pennsylvania Station 34th Street and Seventh Avenue, Midtown Manhattan	[1]		Subway: 1 2 3 (1234) at 34th Street-Penn Station, A C (1234) E at 34th Street-Penn Station Bus: M4, M10, M16, M20, M34, Q32 New Jersey Transit Amtrak PATH
					Long Island City Borden Avenue and 2nd Street, Long Island City	[2]		Subway: (7 <7> (1a2a3c)) at Vernon Boulevard-Jackson Avenue Bus: Q103 New York Water Taxi
					Hunterspoint Avenue Hunterspoint Avenue and Skillman Avenue, Long Island City	[3]		Subway: (7 <7> (1a2a3c)) at Hunters Point Avenue Bus: Q67
					Woodside 61st Street and Roosevelt Avenue, Woodside	[4]	5.1 (8.2)	Subway: (7 <7> (1a2a3c)) at 61st Street-Woodside Bus: Q18, Q32, Q53
					Grand Street Rego Park			closed 1925
					Rego Park Rego Park			closed June 8, 1962
					Matawok Forest Hills			closed 1925
					Forest Hills Continental Avenue (71st Avenue) and Austin Street, Forest Hills	[5]	8.7	Subway: E F G (345) R (1234) V (123) at 71st-Continental Avenues Bus: Q23, Q60, Q65A
					Kew Gardens Austin Street and Lefferts Boulevard, Kew Gardens	[6]	9.7	Subway: E F at Union Turnpike-Kew Gardens Bus: Q10, Q37, Q46, Q74
					Westbridge Richmond Hill			closed 1939
					Penny Bridge Maspeth			closed March 16, 1998
					Haberman Maspeth			closed March 16, 1998
					Fresh Pond Ridgewood			closed March 16, 1998
					Glendale Glendale			closed March 16, 1998
					Richmond Hill Richmond Hill			closed March 16, 1998
					Flatbush Avenue Atlantic Avenue and Flatbush Avenue, Downtown Brooklyn	[7]		Subway: 2 3 (1234) 4 5 (1) at Atlantic Avenue, D M (1) N R (1234) at Atlantic Avenue-Pacific Street, B (123a) Q at Atlantic Avenue Bus: B41, B45, B63, B65, B67
					Nostrand Avenue Nostrand Avenue and Atlantic Avenue, Bedford-Stuyvesant	[8]		Subway: A C (1234) at Nostrand Avenue Bus: B25, B44, B65
					East New York Atlantic Avenue and Havens Place, East New York	[9]		Subway: L at Atlantic Avenue, A C (1234) at Broadway Junction, J Z (1a) at Broadway Junction Bus: B12, B20, B25, B83, Q24, Q56
					Warwick Street Cypress Hills			closed
					Autumn Avenue Cypress Hills			closed
					Union Course Woodhaven			closed
					Woodhaven Woodhaven			closed 1972
					Clarenceville Richmond Hill			closed
					Morris Park Richmond Hill			closed
					Dunton Richmond Hill			closed
					Boland's Landing			employees-only stop
					Jamaica Sutphin Boulevard and Archer Avenue, Jamaica	[10]	10.8 (17.4)	Subway: E J Z (1a) at Sutphin Boulevard/Archer Avenue Bus (New York City Bus): Q6, Q8, Q9, Q20A/B, Q24, Q25 Q30, Q31, Q34, Q40, Q41, Q43, Q44, Q60, Q65 Airtrain JFK
Trains continue to Long Island on the Main Line (Hempstead, Oyster Bay, Port Jefferson and Ronkonkoma Branches) and the Atlantic and Montauk Branches (Babylon, Far Rockaway, Long Beach, Montauk and West Hempstead Branches)

[edit] Routes

Note 1: There are four routes that are used for the City Terminal Zone (the Port Washington Branch uses the Main Line, but is differentiated from the other services that go to Jamaica):

• ML = Main Line
• PW = Port Washington Branch
• HP = Hunterspoint - This route (part of the Main Line) is served only during weekday rush hours in the peak direction (to Long Island City in the morning, from Long Island City in the afternoon). Most trains on this route terminate/originate at Hunterspoint Avenue. Hunterspoint Avenue and the track east of it is considered Main Line territory.
• MT = Montauk Branch - As of July 2006, only one train per direction travels on this route during weekday rush hours.
• AT = Atlantic Branch