| Grand Street | ||||||||||||||||
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 Former station site in 2020 | ||||||||||||||||
| General information | ||||||||||||||||
| Location | Grand and Calamus Avenues Elmhurst, Queens, New York | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°44′1.6″N 73°53′1.2″W / 40.733778°N 73.883667°W / 40.733778; -73.883667 | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Long Island Rail Road | |||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Main Line | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 island platforms | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 6 | |||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 1913 | |||||||||||||||
| Closed | 1925 | |||||||||||||||
| Electrified | 1905 | |||||||||||||||
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Grand Street was a railroad station on the Main Line of the Long Island Rail Road. It stood on Grand Street (now Avenue) in the Elmhurst section of Queens, New York City, west of the present Grand Avenue – Newtown subway station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line. Though it was only operational for 12 years, it served both the Main Line and the Rockaway Beach Branch which broke away from the main line in Rego Park.
The station opened as a pair of sheltered sheds on July 1, 1913, and served both local main line trains and as the original terminus of the Rockaway Beach Branch. The sheds were removed in 1922, and it was discontinued as a station stop in 1925. Three years later a new Rego Park Station was built on Whitepot Junction, but it served Rockaway Beach Branch trains exclusively.
References
- "Long Island Station history". trainsarefun.com. Archived from the original on 2010-04-08. Retrieved 2010-03-22.
External links
- Ron Ziel historic photograph of Grand Street Station (LIRR Unofficial History Website)
- Grand Street Station (Arrt's Arrchives)
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- Former Long Island Rail Road stations in New York City
- Elmhurst, Queens
- Railway stations in Queens, New York
- Railway stations in the United States opened in 1913
- 1925 disestablishments in New York (state)
- 1913 establishments in New York City
- Grand Street and Grand Avenue
- Railway stations in the United States closed in 1925
- New York City railway station stubs
- Queens, New York building and structure stubs