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Belmont Park is a seasonal-use Long Island Rail Road station on the grounds of the Belmont Park racetrack in the New York City borough of Queens. The station is a terminus of a spur line that lies south of and between the Queens Village and Elmont–UBS Arena stations on the Main Line / Hempstead Branch .
New York Arena Partners, the main party behind the Belmont Park redevelopment, would pay $97 million of the estimated $105 million cost, with the balance being paid by the state. [2] [3] The station was the first completely new LIRR station since 1976, when the now-dismantled Southampton College station opened. [3]
The LIRR has an amalgam of different station house designs across its system. Many station houses built during the same time period (e.g., Mineola and Manhasset ; 1920s), or as part of the same project (e.g., Central Islip and Deer Park ; 1987 Hicksville–Ronkonkoma electrification project), share similar or identical designs.
Belmont Park is a thoroughbred horse racetrack in Elmont, New York, just east of New York City limits best known for hosting the Belmont Stakes, the final leg of the American Triple Crown. It was opened on May 4, 1905, and is one of the best well known racetracks in the United States.
Prior to November 2021, passengers going to Belmont Park had to buy a special ticket to go from Jamaica to Belmont Park (or vice versa). Weekly and monthly passes were not accepted at Belmont Park. [92] With the opening of Elmont station in November 2021, Belmont Park and Elmont were placed into fare zone 4. [93]
A promise to build a new LIRR station in Sunnyside to provide access to Penn Station was quietly abandoned by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration in 2016 as the East Side Access project to ...
The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) provides race-day-only passenger service to Belmont Park from Jamaica and Penn Station. Elmont is near the Floral Park, New Hyde Park and Valley Stream stations of the LIRR's Main Line, which provide regular commuter service to NYC. The Elmont station opened for eastbound trains in November 2021 [6] [7] and for ...
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