Brooklyn Manor (LIRR station)

Brooklyn Manor
Former Brooklyn Manor Station site beneath the BMT Jamaica Line
Location	Jamaica Avenue between 98th and 101st Streets Richmond Hill, Queens
Coordinates	40°41′42″N 73°50′50″W / 40.6949°N 73.8472°W / 40.6949; -73.8472Coordinates: 40°41′42″N 73°50′50″W / 40.6949°N 73.8472°W / 40.6949; -73.8472
Owned by	City of New York
Line(s)	Rockaway Beach Branch
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	New York City Subway: at 104th Street
Other information
Station code	None
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	January 9, 1911
Closed	June 8, 1962
Rebuilt	N/A; station abandoned
Electrified	1905
Services
Preceding station   LIRR   Following station Brooklyn Hills toward Grand Street Rockaway Beach Branch Woodhaven Junction toward Rockaway Park

Brooklyn Manor was a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Rockaway Beach branch in New York City on the south side of Jamaica Avenue at 100th Street at the border between Richmond Hill and Woodhaven, Queens. The station name referred to the nearby Brooklyn Manor section of Woodhaven (originally a 603 lot development located from Woodhaven Boulevard to 96/98 Street, Forest Park to Jamaica Avenue). Brooklyn Manor station was demolished following its 1962 closure.

The elevated station was located on the south side of the overpass over Jamaica Avenue, with two side platforms and shelters on both platforms. The platforms were constructed from wood, as were most other stations constructed on the line at this time. Most of the current stations south of here were built or rebuilt in the 1930s and 1940s and made of concrete. The BMT's Jamaica elevated (now part of the New York City Subway) runs over the Rockaway Beach tracks along Jamaica Avenue; this section of the BMT elevated was opened in 1917, built after the LIRR station. Connection was available two blocks east at the 102nd–104th Streets station. Connection was also available to the Jamaica Avenue surface trolley.

A new station along the Rockaway Beach Branch at Jamaica Avenue was proposed in 1909, and built in conjunction with grade-crossing eliminations and electrification projects along the line, as well as the extension from the Glendale Junction with the Montauk Branch to the LIRR Main Line at Whitepot Junction (known as the Glendale Cut-off). The new station opened on January 9, 1911. The station also served as a replacement for the former Brooklyn Hills Station, which was built in 1882 approximately 3,000 feet north of the site at Myrtle Avenue in Forest Park. The next stop north was Parkside (opened in 1927), and the next stop south was Woodhaven Junction. Following its opening, the station diverted passengers away from the Atlantic Branch, leading to increased service to Penn Station.