Flatbush Avenue (LIRR station)

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Flatbush Avenue
The station, pre-renovation; the ticket office and information booth shown are now closed to the public; new facilities are located on street level in the Atlantic Terminal Mall.
Location:	Downtown Brooklyn
Line(s):	Atlantic Branch
Service(s):	City Terminal Zone
Opened:	July 2, 1877
Electrified:	July 26, 1905

Flatbush Avenue, also called the Atlantic Terminal, is the westernmost stop on the Long Island Rail Road's Atlantic Branch. It is at Flatbush Avenue and Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. It is the main terminal for the Far Rockaway, Hempstead, and on weekdays, West Hempstead Branches. It serves Downtown Brooklyn and, via a subway connection, Lower Manhattan.

It is located in the City Terminal Zone, and is in the CityTicket program. It is in the LIRR's Zone 1.

Contents 1 Connections and nearby attractions 2 Tracks and platforms 3 Future developments 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Connections and nearby attractions

It is near several subway lines. The Atlantic Avenue IRT, Atlantic Avenue BMT, Atlantic Avenue–Pacific Street BMT are inside the same station, while the Fulton Street IND station is three blocks northeast.

It is close to the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the recently-constructed Atlantic Terminal Mall.

It also has connections to some bus routes: B41, B45, B63, B65, and B67.

[edit] Tracks and platforms

It has six tracks and three platforms.

• Tracks 1 and 2 each hold ten cars, though the first two cars are not accessible due to a large gap between the train and the platform.
• Tracks 3 and 4 each hold eight cars. BROOK Tower is at the east end of this platform.
• Track 5 holds six cars.
• Track 6 holds six cars, but only four cars can platform. The west end of this track is adjacent to the uptown 2 3 subway platform.

[edit] Future developments

The massive Atlantic Yards residential, commercial and sports complex (including Barclays Center) are under construction around the station and above its tracks.

As part of the proposed Lower Manhattan-Jamaica/JFK Transportation Project, Flatbush Avenue station would switch from being terminal station, it would become a through station for trains terminating at a proposed station in lower Manhattan.

[edit] See also

• Long Island Rail Road
• Lower Manhattan-Jamaica/JFK Transportation Project

[edit] External links

• LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD - I. R. T. CONNECTION 1
• NYCSubway.org's page about the terminal
• The official station page
• Maps and aerial photos Coordinates: 40.684226° -73.977234°
  • Street map from Google Maps, or Yahoo! Maps, or Windows Live Local
  • Satellite image from Google Maps, Windows Live Local, WikiMapia
  • Topographic map from TopoZone
  • Aerial image or topographic map from TerraServer-USA

Major intercity railroad stations of New York City & Vicinity v • d • e
Active terminals:	Penn Station (PT&T) - Grand Central (NYC) - Flatbush Avenue (LIRR) - Long Island City (LIRR) - Hoboken (DL&W)
Former terminals:	Communipaw (CNJ) - Exchange Place (PRR) - Pavonia (ERIE) - Weehawken (NYC)
Other stations:	Jamaica (LIRR) - Newark Penn Station (PRR)

Previous station		Long Island Rail Road		Next station
Terminus		Atlantic Branch (City Terminal Zone)		Nostrand Avenue toward Long Island