- Flushing Main Street (LIRR station)
Infobox Station
name=Flushing Main Street
style=LIRR
image_size=
image_caption=View from Eastbound Platform "B" to Port Washington
address= Main Street & 41st Avenue
Flushing, NY
line=rail color box|system=LIRR|line=Port Washington
other=New York City Subway
NYCS-bull-small|7 at Flushing–Main Street
NYCT Bus, MTA BusMTA Long Island Bus
Four Two's Taxi
platform=2
tracks=2
parking=Yes; Metered
bicycle=
baggage_check=
passengers=
pass_year=
pass_percent=
pass_system=
opened=June 26 ,1854 Vincent F. Seyfried , , © 1963]
closed=
rebuilt=1865, 1870, 1913, 1958
electrified=October 22 ,1912
ADA=
code=
owned=MTA
zone=3
services=
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mpassengers=Flushing Main Street is a station on the
Port Washington Branch of theLong Island Rail Road , serving the neighborhood ofFlushing, Queens . The station is part ofCityTicket , 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 inMidtown 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 abandonedWhitestone Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. OnOctober 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 onOctober 22 ,1912 , the station was abandoned onNovember 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 onOctober 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.Bus & Rail Connections
New York City Subway
*Flushing–Main Street station on theIRT Flushing Line (NYCS Flushing)NYCT Bus
*Q12: Flushing-Main Street Subway Station-Little Neck.
*Q13: Flushing-Main Street Subway Station-Fort Totten.
*Q14: Flushing-Main Street Subway Station-Whitestone.
*Q15: Flushing-Main Street Subway Station-Beechhurst.
*Q16: Flushing-Main Street Subway Station-Fort Totten.
*Q17: Jamaica-Flushing-Main Street Subway Station.
*Q20: Jamaica-College Point.
*Q26: Flushing-Main Street Subway Station-Fresh Meadows.
*Q27: Flushing-Main Street Subway Station-Cambria Heights.
*Q28: Flushing-Main Street Subway Station-Bay Terrace.
*Q44: Jamaica-Bronx Zoo .
*Q48:LaGuardia Airport -Flushing-Main Street Subway Station.
*Q58: to Myrtle-Wyckoff Avenue Subway Station.MTA Bus
*Q25: Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue Subway Station-College Point.
*Q34: Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue Subway Station-Whitestone.
*Q65: Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue Subway Station-College Point.
*Q66: to Queensborough Plaza Subway Station.MTA Long Island Bus
*N20: to Hicksville.
*N21: to Glen Cove.Gallery
References
External links
* [http://lirr42.mta.info/stationinfo.asp?station=018 LIRR station information for Flushing Main Street]
*Unofficial LIRR Website Photos.
** [http://www.lirrhistory.com/aug2000/FLMnSt3.jpgViews of] [http://www.lirrhistory.com/dec2006c/flushing08.jpgMain Street Ticket Booth] ,
** [http://www.lirrhistory.com/dec2006c/flushing09.jpgEmbankment on south side of the tracks] ,
** [http://www.lirrhistory.com/aug2000/FLMnSt1.jpgViews of] [http://www.lirrhistory.com/dec2006c/flushing10.jpgPlatform B (To Port Washignton)] ,
** [http://www.lirrhistory.com/dec2006c/flushing11.jpgShelter for] and [http://www.lirrhistory.com/dec2006c/flushing12.jpgStaircase to Port Washington-bound Platform]
** [http://www.lirrhistory.com/dec2006c/flushing13.jpgStaircase to] [http://www.lirrhistory.com/dec2006c/flushing15.jpgPlatform A (To Manhattan)]
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