Broadway (LIRR Station)
Broadway is a station in the Flushing neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, on the Port Washington Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. The station is part of CityTicket. The station is east of an overpass at the intersection of 162nd Street and Northern Boulevard and is 11.1 miles (17.9 km) from Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan. A renovation in 2008 added wheelchair ramps.
Originally built in 1866 by the New York and Flushing Railroad, Broadway Station was named for Broadway, the old name used for the section of Northern Boulevard (NY 25A) passing through Flushing and Auburndale. By the 1930s the street name changed to avoid confusion with another Broadway located in western Queens, but the station name remained the same.
Read more about Broadway (LIRR Station): Platforms and Tracks
Famous quotes containing the word broadway:
“The name of the town isn’t important. It’s the one that’s just twenty-eight minutes from the big city. Twenty-three if you catch the morning express. It’s on a river and it’s got houses and stores and churches. And a main street. Nothing fancy like Broadway or Market, just plain Broadway. Drug, dry good, shoes. Those horrible little chain stores that breed like rabbits.”
—Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993)