Hunterspoint Avenue (LIRR station)

Infobox Station
name=Hunterspoint Avenue
style=LIRR


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image_caption=West end of station
address=Hunterspoint Avenue and Skillman Avenue .
Long Island City, New York
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other=New York City Subway
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NYCT Buses
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pass_year=2006
pass_percent=0
pass_system=LIRR
opened=Mid-1914
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rebuilt=
electrified=June 16, 1910
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owned=MTA
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Hunterspoint Avenue is a Long Island Rail Road train station within the City Terminal Zone. It is located at Hunters Point Avenue (49th Avenue) and Skillman Avenue in Long Island City, Queens. The station has an island platform and is not wheelchair accessible.

This is one the most dilapidated and dangerous of the Long Island Rail Road's western terminus stations. Tracks leading to the station are in such poor condition that trains must approach at a crawl. Steps used to access the station are so seriously corroded that rust has eaten large holes through steel support beams. Holes in the platform have been repaired with irregular and loose wooden planks. Overhead covers have been patched with warped plywood that nevertheless releases torrents of rainwater on passengers directly at the bottom of the steps leading up from the station. Passengers leaving the west end of the station must cross heavy traffic without the aid of cross walk or crossing lights to reach the nearby subway station. Fact|date=September 2008

The station is served only during weekday rush hours in the peak direction (to Hunterspoint Avenue from Long Island in the morning, from Hunterspoint Avenue to Long Island in the evening). Trains are normally run through to and from the Oyster Bay, Montauk, or Port Jefferson Branches, with one Ronkonkoma-bound train also departs from Hunterspoint Avenue in the late afternoon. Some westbound trains continue to Long Island City, and some eastbound trains originate in Long Island City. The majority of service is provided by diesel trains that cannot access the East River Tunnels. However, the trackage to the station from the east and west is electrified and one round-trip is provided by electric train service.Fact|date=September 2008

According to a New York Times article from May 1914, the station would have opened on July 1, 1914. [New York Times, [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10D14F6355D13738DDDAA0894DD405B848DF1D3 New Railway Station] , May 3, 1914, page XX1]

Connections

New York City Subway
*Hunters Point Avenue station on the IRT Flushing Line (NYCS Flushing)New York City Bus
*B61: Long Island City-Red Hook, Brooklyn.MTA Bus
*Q67: Long Island City-Middle Village.

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References

External links

* [http://lirr42.mta.info/stationinfo.asp?station=002 LIRR station information for Hunterspoint Avenue]
* [http://www.mta.info/lirr/Timetable/CityHP-LIC.htm LIRR schedule for Hunterspoint Avenue]