Grand Street station (LIRR Main Line)

For other uses, see Grand Street.

Grand Street was a railroad station on the Main Line of the Long Island Rail Road. It stood on Grand Street (now Avenue) in the Elmhurst section of Queens, New York City, west of the present Grand Avenue – Newtown subway station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line. Though it was only operational for 12 years, it served both the Main Line and the Rockaway Beach Branch which broke away from the main line in Rego Park.

Grand Street
Former station site in 2020
General information
Location	Grand and Calamus Avenues Elmhurst, Queens, New York
Coordinates	40°44′1.6″N 73°53′1.2″W
Owned by	Long Island Rail Road
Line(s)	Main Line
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	6
Other information
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	1913
Closed	1925
Electrified	1905
Former services
Preceding station Long Island Rail Road Following station Winfield Junction toward Long Island City or Penn Station Main Line Forest Hills toward Greenport Terminus Rockaway Beach Division Brooklyn Manor toward Gibson or Rockaway Park

The station opened as a pair of sheltered sheds on July 1, 1913, and served both local main line trains and as the original terminus of the Rockaway Beach Branch. The sheds were removed in 1922, and it was discontinued as a station stop in 1925. Three years later a new Rego Park Station was built on Whitepot Junction, but it served Rockaway Beach Branch trains exclusively.

External links

• Ron Ziel historic photograph of Grand Street Station (LIRR Unofficial History Website)^[usurped]
• Grand Street Station (Arrt's Arrchives)