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Long Island City is a rail terminal of the Long Island Rail Road in Long Island City, Queens. Within the City Terminal Zone and located at Borden Avenue and Second Street, it is the westernmost LIRR station in Queens and the end of both the Main Line and the Montauk Branch. The station is wheelchair accessible.
The station is served only during weekday rush hours in the peak direction (to Long Island City in the morning, from Long Island City in the evening) by diesel trains. Trains normally run through from the Oyster Bay, Montauk, or Port Jefferson Branches via Hunterspoint Avenue. One train a day runs via the Lower Montauk Branch, a westbound from Oyster Bay.
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Long Island City station was built on June 26, 1854, and was rebuilt seven times during the 19th Century. On December 18, 1902, both the two-story station building, and an office building owned by the LIRR burned down.[3] The station was rebuilt on April 26, 1903, and was electrified on June 16, 1910.
Before the East River Tunnels were built, the Long Island City station served as the terminus for Manhattan-bound passengers from Long Island, who took ferries to the East Side of Manhattan. The passenger ferry service was abandoned on March 3, 1925, although freight was carried by car floats (see Gantry Plaza State Park) to and from Manhattan until the middle twentieth century.[4] Today ferry service is operated by NY Waterway.
This station has two concrete high-level island platforms. Each are two cars long and are accessible from Borden Avenue, just west of Fifth Street. There are 14 tracks, the tracks with no platforms being used for train storage.
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