East New York station

40°40′34″N 73°54′21″W / 40.676053°N 73.905925°W / 40.676053; -73.905925Owned byLong Island Rail RoadLine(s)Atlantic BranchDistance4.0 mi (6.4 km) from Atlantic Terminal^[1]Platforms2 side platformsTracks2Connections New York City Subway:
at Atlantic Avenue
​​​​ at Broadway Junction
NYCT Bus: B12, B20, B25, B83, Q24, Q56ConstructionAccessiblenoOther informationFare zone1HistoryOpened1878Closed1924 (Bay Ridge Branch platforms)Previous namesManhattan Beach Railroad CrossingPassengers2012—20141,358 daily^[2]Rank66 of 125 Services

Preceding station	Long Island Rail Road			Following station
Nostrand Avenue toward Atlantic Terminal		City Terminal Zone Atlantic shuttle		Jamaica Terminus
		West Hempstead Branch		Jamaica toward West Hempstead
		Hempstead Branch Peak periods only		Jamaica toward Hempstead
		Babylon Branch Peak periods only		Jamaica toward Freeport

Former services
Preceding station Long Island Rail Road Following station Nostrand Avenue toward Flatbush Avenue Atlantic Division Woodhaven toward Valley Stream New Lots Road toward Bay Ridge Bay Ridge Branch Bushwick Avenue toward Fresh Pond

Legend

to Nostrand Avenue to Jamaica

The East New York station is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Atlantic Branch in the East New York and Ocean Hill neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York City, where that branch passes through the Jamaica Pass. It is generally served by the West Hempstead Branch and the City Terminal Zone Atlantic Branches of the LIRR.

The East New York station also formerly served the LIRR's Bay Ridge Branch until passenger service on that branch ended in 1924.

History

When the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad opened in April 1836, under lease to the LIRR,^[3]: 44 it did not include a station at East New York.^[4] The LIRR began stopping at East New York by early 1843,^[5] eventually stopping at the Howard House at Alabama Avenue, shared with all the other horse car and steam lines into East New York.^[6] From 1861 to 1877, East New York served as the west end of steam service along the Atlantic Branch.^[7][8]

By 1878, local Atlantic Avenue rapid transit trains began stopping at a new station, Manhattan Beach Railroad Crossing, at the New York and Manhattan Beach Railway crossing at Van Sinderen Avenue. This later became the main East New York station, with only these local trains stopping at Howard House.^[9] The Atlantic Avenue Improvement, completed in 1905, resulted in the closing of the Howard House station, and the expanded Manhattan Crossing station was renamed East New York. The elevated Warwick Street station, 18 blocks east, was also labeled as serving East New York;^[10] it closed in 1939, when the elevated railway east of East New York was buried in the current tunnel.^[11]

East New York was also a station on the New York and Manhattan Beach Railway, now the Bay Ridge Branch, from its opening in July 1877 until May 1924, when passenger service on the branch ended. It was initially at grade level where the lines crossed, but was placed in a tunnel in 1915; the platforms, under East New York Avenue, still exist. Until the 1930s, a grade-level freight connection existed in the southeast quadrant between the two lines.^[12]

In 1924, the station was the location of a firework accident that resulted in Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., an oft-cited court case on the doctrine of proximate cause.

In the 2010s, many locals and elected officials such as Brooklyn's then-borough president, Eric Adams, advocated for renovations to the station, including bringing it into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.^[13]

Station layout

The station is located at ground level, in the median of Atlantic Avenue, and underneath the elevated main lanes of Atlantic Avenue, with one eight-car side platform on either side of the two-track line. A closed ticket office is located in the underpass, which has staircases to the southwest corner of East New York and Atlantic avenues and the northwest corner of Van Sinderen and Atlantic avenues. On either side of the station, the tracks submerge into a tunnel, allowing the main lanes of Atlantic Avenue to return to the surface.

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City Terminal Zone

Main Line (west)	Penn Station Grand Central Madison Long Island City Hunterspoint Avenue Sunnyside Woodside Winfield Junction Grand Street Rego Park Forest Hills Hopedale Kew Gardens Westbridge Dunton Jamaica
Atlantic Branch (west)	Atlantic Terminal Nostrand Avenue East New York Woodhaven Woodhaven Junction Clarenceville Morris Park/Morris Grove/Boland's Landing Jamaica

Atlantic Branch (east)Far Rockaway BranchHempstead BranchLong Beach BranchMontauk Branch

Lower Montauk	Long Island City Penny Bridge Laurel Hill Haberman Maspeth Fresh Pond Glendale Ridgewood Richmond Hill Shops Dunton Jamaica
Babylon Branch	Union Hall Street Canal Street Hillside St. Albans Springfield Gardens Rosedale Valley Stream Lynbrook Rockville Centre Baldwin Freeport Merrick Bellmore Wantagh Seaford Massapequa Massapequa Park Unqua Amityville Copiague Belmont Junction Lindenhurst Babylon
Montauk (east)	Bay Shore Islip Centre Islip Club House Great River Oakdale Sayville Bayport Blue Point Patchogue East Patchogue Hagerman Bellport Brookhaven Mastic–Shirley Mastic Center Moriches East Moriches Eastport Speonk Westhampton Quogue East Quogue Hampton Bays Canoe Place Suffolk Downs Shinnecock Hills Southampton College Southampton Water Mill Bridgehampton Wainscott East Hampton Amagansett Napeague Beach Fanny Bartlett Promised Land Montauk

Oyster Bay BranchPt. Jefferson BranchPt. Washington BranchMain Line (east) /
Ronkonkoma Branch /
Greenport Branch

Main Line (east)	Union Hall Street Canal Street Hillside Hillside Facility Rockaway Junction Willow Tree Hollis Bellaire Queens Village Elmont Floral Park New Hyde Park Merillon Avenue Mineola Carle Place Westbury New Cassel Hicksville Grumman Bethpage Bethpage Junction
Ronkonkoma Branch	Farmingdale Republic Pinelawn Wyandanch Edgewood Deer Park Pilgrim State Hospital Thompson Pineaire Brentwood Suffolk Central Islip Central Islip State Hospital Nichols Road Lakeland Ronkonkoma
Greenport Branch	Hermanville Holbrook Holtsville Medford Bartlett's Fire Place Yaphank East Yaphank Carman's River Upton Road Camp Upton Wampmissic Manorville Calverton Riverhead Aquebogue Jamesport Laurel Mattituck Cutchogue Peconic Southold Greenport

Belmont Park BranchW. Hempstead Branch