Bayside (LIRR station)

Bayside (earlier Bay Side) is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch in the Bayside section of Queens in New York City. The station is located at 213th Street and 41st Avenue, off Bell Boulevard and just north of Northern Boulevard, and is 12.6 miles (20.3 km) from Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan. The station is part of CityTicket.

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[hide]*1 History
 * 2 Platform and track configuration
 * 3 NYCT Bus Connections
 * 4 Gallery
 * 5 References
 * 6 External links
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[edit] History
Bayside Station was originally built on October 27, 1866, by the North Shore Railroad of Long Island, a subsidiary of the New York and Flushing Railroad. The station, along with the rest of the line was acquired by the Flushing and North Side Rail Road in 1874. The current station building dates to 1924. The tracks were depressed beneath Bell Boulevard in 1928. A freight elevator building was then opened on the eastbound side until the Port Washington Branch stopped carrying freight. The 1928 freight station remains today, being converted into a local community center. The wooden pedestrian bridge that carried commuters across the tracks to both platforms was replaced in 1998 by a decorative steel bridge.

The station, along with the Port Washington line in general, is heavily used. During the 2005 New York City transit strike, the station had the distinction of being one of the few where trains actually stopped, bypassing lesser stations on the Port Washington branch such as Auburndale and Murray Hill.[citation needed]

[edit] Platform and track configuration
This station has two slightly offset high-level side platforms each 10 cars long. The north platform, adjacent to Track 1, is generally used by westbound or Manhattan-bound trains. The south platform, adjacent to Track 2, is generally used by eastbound or Nassau County-bound trains. The Port Washington Branch has two tracks at this location.

[edit] NYCT Bus Connections

 * Q13: Flushing-Main Street Subway Station-Fort Totten.
 * Q31: Bayside-Sutphin Boulevard-Archer Avenue Subway Station.