Bayside is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch in the Bayside section of Queens in New York City. The station is located at 213th Street and 41st Avenue, off Bell Boulevard and just north of Northern Boulevard, and is 12.6 miles from Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan. The station is part of CityTicket. The Long Island Rail Road or LIRR (often referred to as the L-I-double-R) is a railroad that serves the length of Long Island, New York. ... The Port Washington Branch is a fully electrified two-track branch line of the Long Island Rail Road in Long Island, New York. ... Bayside is the name of a neighborhood in Queens County of New York City, New York in the United States of America. ... Queens Borough in New York City, in yellow Queens is the largest in area and second most populous of the five boroughs of New York City. ... Nickname: The Big Apple Official website: City of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area Total 468. ... Penn Stations underground Long Island Rail Road concourse Pennsylvania Station is one of New York Citys main railway stations, sharing the Pennsylvania Station name with several stations in other cities. ... View of Midtown from Empire State Building. ... Cityticket is a program instuted by the MTA in 2004 that allow a person to ride the Metro-North Railroad or the Long Island Railroad between any point in the borders of New York City, for a reduced $3. ...
The station, along with the Port Washington line in general, is heavily used. During the 2005 New York City transit strike, the station had the distinction of being one of the few where trains actually stopped, bypassing lesser stations on the Port Washington branch such as Auburndale and Murray Hill. A closed entrance to 45th Street station on the R Line in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. ... Auburndale is a station on the Long Island Rail Roads Port Washington Branch in the Auburndale neighborhood of Queens in New York City. ...