Flushing Main Street (LIRR station)

Flushing–Main Street
View from Eastbound Platform "B" to Port Washington
Location	Main Street & 41st Avenue Flushing, New York
Coordinates	40°45′29″N 73°49′52″W / 40.757989°N 73.831086°W / 40.757989; -73.831086Coordinates: 40°45′29″N 73°49′52″W / 40.757989°N 73.831086°W / 40.757989; -73.831086
Owned by	Long Island Rail Road
Line(s)	Port Washington Branch
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	New York City Subway:   trains at Flushing–Main Street NYCT Bus: Q12, Q13, Q15, Q16, Q17, Q19, Q20A/Q20B, Q26, Q27, Q28, Q44 SBS, Q48, Q50, Q58 MTA Bus: Q25, Q34, Q65, Q66 NICE Bus: n20G
Construction
Parking	Yes (metered)
Other information
Fare zone	3
History
Opened	June 26, 1854 (NY&F)
Rebuilt	1865, 1870, 1913, 1958
Electrified	October 22, 1912 750 V (DC) third rail
Previous names	Flushing (1853-1870)
Traffic
Passengers (2006)	2,136
Services
Preceding station   LIRR   Following station Mets–Willets Point (Game days and USTA matches only) toward Penn Station Port Washington Branch Murray Hill toward Port Washington Woodside toward Penn Station

Flushing–Main Street is a station on the Port Washington Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, serving the neighborhood of Flushing, Queens. The station is part of CityTicket, and is in Zone 3. The station is located at Main Street and 41st Avenue, off Kissena Boulevard and is 9.5 miles (15.3 km) from Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan and 10.4 miles (16.73 km) southwest of Port Washington. Parking is provided at a municipal lot on 41st Avenue.

The Flushing–Main Street station was originally built in December 1853 as "Flushing" station by the New York and Flushing Railroad, but not opened until June 26, 1854. Flushing would serve as the terminus of the NY&F until October 30, 1864 when a subsidiary known as the North Shore Railroad extended it out to Great Neck, and it was burned in order to prepare for a second station that was built between January and February 1865. In 1868, the station and the rest of the line were acquired by the Flushing and North Side Railroad, which razed the station again in 1870 and built a third station between October and November 1870. The station was renamed after both Flushing and Main Street, in order to distinguish itself from the former Flushing Bridge Street station that ran along the F&NS's Whitestone Branch, which was later abandoned by the LIRR in 1932.

Throughout the mid-1870s, the station and the rest of the line was merged with the Central Railroad of Long Island to form the Flushing, North Shore and Central Railroad, and finally became part of the Port Washington Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, which also used the station as the eastern terminus of the White Line between 1873 and 1876. Shortly after the line was electrified on October 22, 1912, the station was abandoned on November 11, 1912, as part of an effort by the Long Island Rail Road to bring the Port Washington Branch above and below street level depending on the location.