The Long Island City station is a rail terminal of the Long Island Rail Road in the Hunters Point and Long Island City neighborhoods of Queens, New York City. Located within the City Terminal Zone at Borden Avenue and Second Street, it is the westernmost LIRR station in Queens and the end of both the Main Line and Montauk Branch. The station consists of one passenger platform located at ground level and is wheelchair accessible.
Looking west at the station (to the right of the fence) and yard (to the left); the brick building to the right is ventilation for the Queens–Midtown Tunnel.
Long Island City (LIC) is a residential and commercial neighborhood on the western tip of Queens, a borough in New York City in the United States. It is bordered by Astoria to the north; the East River to the west; New Calvary Cemetery in Sunnyside to the east; and Newtown Creek, which separates Queens from Greenpoint, Brooklyn, to the south.
The expanding skyline of Long Island City in Queens with One Court Square as seen from across the East River opposite Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village in 2017
Religious procession crossing 50th Avenue, 1989
Ancient boulder, a glacial erratic, partly blocking 12th Street
Looking west from an apartment building near Queens Plaza