City Terminal Zone

Eastbound from Long Island City

City Terminal Zone
Legend
Northeast Corridor NJ Transit Amtrak Penn Station East River Long Island City East River Tunnels Hunterspoint Avenue Atlantic Terminal Northeast Corridor Amtrak Woodside Nostrand Ave Port Washington Branch East New York Forest Hills Kew Gardens Jamaica Atlantic Branch Main Line Montauk Branch
All other LIRR branches diverge from these main routes.

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 Mets – Willets Point on the Port Washington Branch), which is the set of stations west of Jamaica.

Routes

There are three routes that are considered part of the City Terminal Zone:

• ML = Main Line
  • HP = Hunterspoint Avenue - Trains that serve Hunterspoint Avenue and Long Island City in Queens. This route 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).
  • NYP = Trains to Penn Station in Manhattan via the East River Tunnels
• AT = Atlantic Branch – Trains that terminate at Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn.

Until November 2012, the City Terminal Zone also included the Lower Montauk Branch from Long Island City to Jamaica. This line served Penny Bridge, Haberman, Fresh Pond, Glendale, and Richmond Hill stations until March 1998.

In the near future, the City Terminal Zone will include a branch to Grand Central Terminal as a part of the East Side Access project. A new station in Sunnyside, Queens will be built once the remainder of the project is complete.

Stations

Zone	Routes			Miles (km) from NYP or AT	Station	Connections/notes
	AT	HP	NYP
1				0.0 (0.0)	Pennsylvania Station	NYC Subway: (at 34th Street – Penn Station (Seventh Avenue)) (at 34th Street – Penn Station (Eighth Avenue)) NYCT Bus: M4, M7, M20, M34 / M34A SBS, Q32 New Jersey Transit Amtrak PATH
				1.9 (3.1)	Long Island City	NYC Subway:   (at Vernon Boulevard – Jackson Avenue) MTA Bus: Q103 NY Waterway: East River Ferry
				2.5 (4.0)	Hunterspoint Avenue	NYC Subway:   (at Hunters Point Avenue) NYCT Bus: B62 MTA Bus: Q67
				4.9 (7.9)	Woodside	LIRR: Port Washington Branch NYC Subway:   (at 61st Street – Woodside) NYCT Bus: Q32 MTA Bus: Q18, Q53, Q70 SBS to LGA
				8.5 (13.7)	Forest Hills	NYC Subway: (at Forest Hills – 71st Avenue) MTA Bus: Q23, Q60, Q64
				8.8 (14.2)	Kew Gardens	NYC Subway: (at Kew Gardens – Union Turnpike) NYCT Bus: Q10, Q37 MTA Bus: QM18
				0.0 (0.0)	Atlantic Terminal	NYC Subway: (at Atlantic Avenue – Barclays Center) NYCT Bus: B41, B45, B63, B65, B67
				1.6 (2.5)	Nostrand Avenue	NYC Subway: (at Nostrand Avenue) NYCT Bus: B25, B44 SBS, B65
				3.4 (6.4)	East New York	NYC Subway: (at Atlantic Avenue) (at Broadway Junction) NYCT Bus: B12, B20, B25, B83, Q24, Q56
	+				Boland's Landing	^+Employees only
3				10.8 (17.4) or 11.2 (18.0)	Jamaica	LIRR; Babylon, Belmont Park, Far Rockaway, Hempstead, Long Beach, Montauk, Oyster Bay, Port Jefferson, Ronkonkoma, and West Hempstead Branches NYC Subway: (at Sutphin Boulevard – Archer Avenue – JFK Airport) NYCT Bus: Q20A, Q20B, Q24, Q30, Q31, Q43, Q44 SBS, Q54, Q56 MTA Bus: Q6, Q8, Q9, Q25, Q34, Q40, Q41, Q60, Q65 NICE Bus: n4 AirTrain JFK: Jamaica Station Route
Trains continue to Long Island on the Main Line (Hempstead, Oyster Bay, Port Jefferson, Ronkonkoma), Atlantic Branch (Far Rockaway and Long Beach) and Montauk Branch (West Hempstead, Babylon, Montauk)

References

External links

• City Terminal Zone branch timetable