Flushing Main Street (LIRR station)

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Flushing Main Street

View from Eastbound Platform "B" to Port Washington

Station statistics

Address

Main Street & 41st Avenue
Flushing, NY

Lines

Port Washington Branch

Connections

New York City Subway

at Flushing–Main Street
NYCT Bus, MTA Bus
MTA Long Island Bus
Four Two's Taxi

Tracks

Parking

Yes; Metered

Other information

Opened

June 26, 1854^[1]

Rebuilt

1865, 1870, 1913, 1958

Electrified

October 22, 1912

Owned by

MTA

Fare zone

Services

Preceding station		Long Island Rail Road		Following station

Shea Stadium toward Penn Station		Port Washington Branch		Murray Hill toward Port Washington

Flushing Main Street is a station on the Port Washington Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, serving the neighborhood of Flushing, Queens. The station is part of CityTicket, and is in Zone 3. The station is located at Main Street and 41st Avenue, off Kissena Boulevard and is 9.5 miles (15.3 km) from Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan. Parking is provided at a municipal lot on 41st Avenue.

Flushing Main Street Station was originally built in December 1853, but not opened until June 26, 1854. The station was named after both the Flushing and Main Street, in order to distignuish itself from the former Flushing Bridge Street station that ran along the abandoned Whitestone Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. On October 30, 1864 it was burned in order to prepare for a second station that was built between January and February 1865. It was razed again in 1870. and a third station was built between October and November 1870. Shortly after the line was electrified on October 22, 1912, the station was abandoned on November 11, 1912, as part of an effort by the Long Island Rail Road to bring the Port Washington Branch above and below street level depending on the location. In Flushing station was elevated along with the rest of the tracks on October 4, 1913. Until that point, the line used to run at grade and even went through a tunnel under a girls' school just east of where the Main Street overpass stands today. The tunnel and the school were torn down to build the overpass and the open cut the line now runs through. In 1958, the elevated track level building was razed and replaced with a street level ticket office. Sheltered platforms exist on both sides of the tracks in the former station's place, and the sidewalks beneath the bridge serve as local businesses.