Atlantic Terminal

Atlantic Terminal
The terminal's entrance pavilion, opened 2010
Location	Atlantic Avenue, Flatbush Avenue & Hanson Place Downtown, Brooklyn, New York
Coordinates	40°41′03″N 73°58′38″W / 40.684226°N 73.977234°W / 40.684226; -73.977234Coordinates: 40°41′03″N 73°58′38″W / 40.684226°N 73.977234°W / 40.684226; -73.977234
Owned by	Long Island Rail Road
Line(s)	Atlantic Branch (City Terminal Zone)
Platforms	3 island platforms
Tracks	6
Connections	New York City Subway: at Atlantic Avenue – Barclays Center NYCT Bus: B41, B45, B63, B65, B67
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	July 2, 1877
Rebuilt	1907, 2010
Electrified	July 26, 1905 750 V (DC) third rail
Previous names	Brooklyn (1852–1877) Flatbush Avenue (1877–2010)
Traffic
Passengers (2010)	27,850
Services
Preceding station   LIRR   Following station Terminus Atlantic Branch (City Terminal Zone) Nostrand Avenue toward Long Island

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Entrance pavilion exterior

Entrance pavilion interior

Platform

Atlantic Terminal, formerly called Flatbush Avenue, is the westernmost stop on the Long Island Rail Road's (LIRR) Atlantic Branch, located at Flatbush Avenue and Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, New York City. It is the primary terminal for the Far Rockaway, Hempstead, and West Hempstead Branches. The terminal is located in the City Terminal Zone, the LIRR's Zone 1, and thus part of the CityTicket program. The LIRR announced that extra service from Babylon and Hicksville will go directly to Atlantic Terminal during New York Islanders games at Barclays Center. Passengers would normally have to transfer at Jamaica to go to Babylon or Hicksville.

The station was originally built as Brooklyn in 1852, twenty years after the line was established as the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad, and wasn't originally a terminus. The original terminus was South Ferry. When LIRR subsidiary New York and Jamaica Railroad built a new line between Hunter's Point and Jamaica in 1861, the main line was relocated there, and the line was abandoned west of East New York, in compliance with Brooklyn's ban on steam railroads. West of East New York, the tracks were taken over by horse car lines.

The Brooklyn station was replaced by the Flatbush Avenue station on July 2, 1877. That same summer local Atlantic Avenue rapid transit trains began to stop here on August 13. The old depot was renovated between July–August 1878, when it also began serving the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railroad. It was rebuilt again in June 1880. The headquarters for the Long Island Express Company was installed there in 1882, and gave the station a series of tracks that would later be known as the "EX Yard." In 1888, the Union Elevated Railway built an elevated railway line and station that connected to the LIRR station, which was better known as the Atlantic Avenue (BMT Fifth Avenue Line). The Union Elevated eventually became part of the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation. Further rebuilding took place again in 1893.