City Terminal Zone

City Terminal Zone
Legend NEC (NJ Transit, Amtrak) Penn Station Long Island City East River Tunnels Grand Central Terminal Hunterspoint Avenue 63rd Street Tunnel Sunnyside Atlantic Terminal NEC (Amtrak) Woodside Nostrand Ave Port Washington Branch East New York Forest Hills Kew Gardens Jamaica Atlantic Branch Main Line Montauk Branch All other LIRR branches diverge from these 3 main routes.

The City Terminal Zone is the name given to a collection of rail lines of the Long Island Rail Road in New York City. Specifically, it refers to all stations that lie in fare zone 1 (except for Mets – Willets Point on the Port Washington Branch), which is the set of stations west of Jamaica.

Stations

Routes					Station	Connections/notes
AT	MT	ML
		HP	PN	GC
					Pennsylvania Station	Subway: 1 2 3 trains at 34th Street – Penn Station (Seventh Avenue), A C E trains at 34th Street – Penn Station (Eighth Avenue) Bus: M4, M7, M20, M34 / M34A Select Bus Service, Q32 New Jersey Transit Amtrak PATH
					Grand Central Terminal (under construction)	Subway: 4 5 6 <6> 7 <7> S trains at Grand Central – 42nd Street Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4, M42, M101, M102, M103 Metro-North
					Long Island City	Subway: 7 <7> trains at Vernon Boulevard – Jackson Avenue Bus: Q103 NY Waterway
					Hunterspoint Avenue	Subway: 7 <7> trains at Hunters Point Avenue Bus: B62, Q67
					Sunnyside (planned)	Subway: E M R trains at Queens Plaza, 7 train at 33rd Street – Rawson Street Bus: B62, Q32, Q39, Q60, Q67, Q100, Q101, Q102
					Woodside	LIRR: Port Washington Branch Subway: 7 <7> trains at Woodside – 61st Street Bus: Q18, Q32, Q53
					Forest Hills	Subway: E F M R trains at Forest Hills – 71st Avenue Bus: Q23, Q60, Q64
					Kew Gardens	Subway: E F trains at Kew Gardens – Union Turnpike Bus: Q10, Q37, QM18
					Atlantic Terminal	Subway: 2 3 4 5 B D N Q R trains at Atlantic Avenue – Pacific Street Bus: B41, B45, B63, B65, B67
					Nostrand Avenue	Subway: A C trains at Nostrand Avenue Bus: B25, B44, B65
					East New York	Subway: L trains at Atlantic Avenue, A C J Z trains at Broadway Junction Bus: B12, B20, B25, B83, Q24, Q56
					Boland's Landing	Employees only
					Jamaica	Subway: E J Z trains at Sutphin Boulevard – Archer Avenue – JFK Airport Bus: Q6, Q8, Q9, Q20A, Q20B, Q24, Q25, Q30, Q31, Q34, Q40, Q41, Q43, Q44, Q60, Q65 AirTrain JFK
Trains continue to Long Island on the Main Line (Hempstead, Oyster Bay, Port Jefferson and Ronkonkoma Branches), the Atlantic Branch (Far Rockaway and Long Beach Branches) and the Montauk Branch (West Hempstead, Babylon and Montauk Branches)

Routes

Eastbound from Long Island City

^1 There are three routes that are considered part of the City Terminal Zone:

• ML = Main Line
  • HP = Hunterspoint Avenue - This route (part of the Main Line) is served only during weekday rush hours in the peak direction (to Long Island City in the morning, from Long Island City in the afternoon). Most trains on this route terminate/originate at Hunterspoint Avenue. Hunterspoint Avenue and the track east of it is considered Main Line territory.
  • PN = trains to Penn Station via the Northeast Corridor
  • GC = trains to Grand Central Terminal; under construction via East Side Access
• MT = Montauk Branch - There is only one westbound AM rush hour train that uses this route west of Jamaica. No eastbound passenger service.
• AT = Atlantic Branch