Bayside (LIRR station)

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Bayside

View of Bayside station house and pedestrian bridge from above the south platform.

Station statistics

Address

213^th Street and 41^st Avenue, off Bell Boulevard
Bayside, NY

Lines

Port Washington Branch

Connections

NYCT Bus
Kelly's Car Service

Platforms

Tracks

Parking

Yes; Metered, NYC Permit, and Private

Bicycle facilities

Yes

Other information

Opened

October 27, 1866^[1]

Rebuilt

1924

Electrified

October 21, 1913

Accessible

Owned by

MTA

Fare zone

Formerly

Bay Side

Bayside (earlier Bay Side) is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch in the Bayside section of Queens in New York City. The station is located at 213th Street and 41st Avenue, off Bell Boulevard and just north of Northern Boulevard, and is 12.6 miles (20.3 km) from Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan. The station is part of CityTicket.

Bayside Station was originally built on October 27, 1866, by the Flushing and North Side Rail Road. The current building dates back to either 1923 or 1924. The tracks were dug beneath Bell Boulevard in the late-1920's. A freight elevator building operated across the tracks from the station until the Port Washington Branch stopped carrying freight. The wooden pedestrian bridge that carried commuters across the tracks to both platforms was replaced in 1998 by a decorative steel bridge.

The station, along with the Port Washington line in general, is heavily used. During the 2005 New York City transit strike, the station had the distinction of being one of the few where trains actually stopped, bypassing lesser stations on the Port Washington branch such as Auburndale and Murray Hill.^{[citation needed]}