Little Neck station
Little Neck is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch, in the Little Neck neighborhood of Queens, New York City. The station is located at Little Neck Parkway and 39th Road, about half a mile north of Northern Boulevard (NY 25A). It is 14.5 miles from Pennsylvania Station in Midtown Manhattan, and is the easternmost station located within New York City served by the Port Washington Branch. The station is part of the CityTicket program and is in Zone 3.
History
The original station house was built between February and May 1870 by the Flushing and [North Side Railroad], and is one of only two built by the F&NS along the Port Washington Branch. The depot was built on the south side of the tracks and east of Little Neck Parkway. The station building was erected by Benjamin Wooley, and was 16 by 26 feet, two stories high, with a high platform in front, and. The station cost $1,500. The station opened in June 1870 as Little Neck, superseding earlier Little Neck station, which reverted to the name of Douglaston. It was replaced by the Long [Island City and Flushing Railroad] in 1890 with a second station house. The former F&NS depot is now located on a local street off Northern Boulevard. Electric lights were installed in the station in February 1910.Automatic gates and high level platforms were installed by 1978.
There is a pedestrian overpass at mid-platform links the eastbound and westbound platforms. The original overpass was refurbished in 1989 and was closed and demolished in September 2016. It was replaced by a prefabricated span in December 2016, about the same time as the execution of other renovations station-wide.
Station layout
The station has two at-grade high-level side platforms, each 10 cars long, with a crossover staircase connecting them.Unlike most station houses on the Port Washington Branch, Little Neck's station house is located on the south side of the station.