Sunnyside | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Queens Boulevard and Skillman Avenue Sunnyside, Queens,New York | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°44′47″N73°56′07″W / 40.7464°N 73.9353°W /40.7464; -73.9353 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Long Island Rail Road | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Line | Northeast Corridor | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1island platform 2side platforms | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Connections | New York City Subway:   trains atQueens Plaza train at33rd Street–Rawson Street   trains atQueensboro Plaza | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accessible | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sunnyside station is a proposedcommuter rail station to be served by theLong Island Rail Road and theMetro-North Railroad. Located in theSunnyside neighborhood ofQueens,New York, the station would be located within theCity Terminal Zone. The proposed location of the station is atQueens Boulevard and Skillman Avenue.[1][2]
In the late 19th century, the LIRR had another Sunnyside Station, which was built by their subsidiaryNewtown and Flushing Railroad, better known as the "White Line." This short-lived line was designed to compete with theFlushing and North Side Railroad in 1873. When the F&NS was consolidated into the LIRR, along with theCentral Railroad of Long Island andSouth Side Railroad of Long Island, the White Line was dissolved, along with the original Sunnyside station.
Though no direct connection to other mass transit services are known, the nearest existing subway stations are at33rd Street–Rawson Street on theIRT Flushing Line (7 train),Queensboro Plaza on theIRT Flushing Line andBMT Astoria Line (7, <7>, N and W trains), andQueens Plaza on theIND Queens Boulevard Line (E, M, and R trains).
Construction for the station was deemed to be impossible untilEast Side Access was completed, as the yard was being redeveloped at the time.[3] The station is classified as a high priority under theSunnyside Yard Master Plan.[4]
The MTA later proposed in their 2025-2044 20-year needs assessment that Sunnyside station serve both the LIRR and the Metro-North Railroad, with the latter providing service to Penn Station afterPenn Station Access is completed.[5]
This station will have three high-level platforms, with one island platform and two side platforms.
The station's main entrance would be at street level on the west side of the Queens Boulevard bridge near its Skillman Avenue end, directly above the center platform.
