Rebuilt 1913, 1929-1931 Previous names New York Avenue | Electrified August 29, 1905 Opened 24 June 1890 | |
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Location Archer Avenue & Union Hall Street
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 Closed 1905(or 1911), May 20, 1977 Similar Canal Street, Haberman, Winfield Junction | ||
Union Hall Street was a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line at Union Hall Street at York College in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, United States.
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Map of Union Hall St, Jamaica, NY 11433, USA
History
A station opened at New York Avenue (now Guy R. Brewer Boulevard) on June 24, 1890, when the local Atlantic Avenue rapid transit trains were extended from Woodhaven Junction through Jamaica to Rockaway Junction. The station was closed in 1905, but in response to complaints about the reopening of Jamaica Station on Sutphin Boulevard (primarily because the downtown core of Jamaica was centered on Union Hall Street, the site of "Old Jamaica"), the LIRR opened a new one a block away at Union Hall Street in 1913, when the tracks through Jamaica were grade-separated. Union Hall Street station was built near the site of the "Old Jamaica Station," originally at ground level and eventually elevated between 1929 and 1931.
The building of the newer Jamaica Station led to commercial development around Sutphin Boulevard and the new station became the primary LIRR station in Jamaica. Eventually Union Hall Street patronage dropped due to its roughly half-mile close proximity to the Sutphin Boulevard-based station. Union Hall closed on May 20, 1977, although in recent years a decorative wall mimicking a station house was placed over the bridge where the former Union Hall Street station used to be. Twelve years after the station closed, the transportation needs in the vicinity of Union Hall Street were compensated with the Jamaica Center – Parsons/Archer Subway Station two blocks west of the former station, although this was more accurately a replacement for the former 160th Street elevated railroad station a block north on Jamaica Avenue, rather than for the ex-Union Hall Street LIRR station.