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Canal Street (LIRR station)

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Closed
  
mid-1899

Opened
  
24 June 1890

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Location
  
168th Street South of 93rd Avenue, Jamaica, Queens

Line(s)
  
Main Line:   Belmont Park Branch   Hempstead Branch   Oyster Bay Branch   Port Jefferson Branch   Ronkonkoma Branch Montauk Branch:   West Hempstead Branch   Babylon Branch   Long Beach Branch

Similar
  
Union Hall Street, Winfield Junction, Haberman

Canal Street was a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line and Montauk Branch at Canal Street (now 168th Street) in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, United States.

History

The station opened on June 24, 1890, when the local Atlantic Avenue rapid transit trains were extended from Woodhaven Junction through Jamaica to Rockaway Junction, their new terminal. The station was closed in 1899, soon after the "rapid transit" trains started running to the Brooklyn Bridge. Seventeen years later, Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation opened 168th Street Station on the Jamaica Elevated Line as a replacement, which existed until 1977. The vicinity of the station is now occupied by the 104th Field Artillery Armory building of the New York Army National Guard, which was built in 1933.

References

Canal Street (LIRR station) Wikipedia