Parkside station
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Parkside
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Site of former Parkside Station
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Metropolitan Avenue and Selfridge Street Forest Hills, Queens, New York |
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| Coordinates | 40°42′43″N 73°51′24″W / 40.71185°N 73.85667°WCoordinates: 40°42′43″N 73°51′24″W / 40.71185°N 73.85667°W | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by |
City of New York Long Island Rail Road (former) |
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| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | None | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | September 15, 1927 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Closed | June 8, 1962 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | 1905 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Previous names | Glendale (September–October 1927) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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None (demolished)
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Parkside is a former elevated Long Island Rail Road station on the north side of Metropolitan Avenue on the border of the Middle Village, Rego Park, Forest Hills, and Glendale neighborhoods in Queens, New York City. Opened in 1927, the wooden station was part of the Rockaway Beach Branch and was the northernmost station on the branch before the junction with the Main Line at Rego Park Station and the terminus of the line at Grand Street Station in Elmhurst. It also had a connecting spur to the Montauk Branch east towards Richmond Hill station. The station was closed in 1962, twelve years after the LIRR had abandoned the Rockaway portions of the line.
The station had two tracks and two wooden high-level side platforms, with four small wooden shelters on both platforms. Exit stairs were located on Metropolitan Avenue.
North of the station, the line veered west to merge with the LIRR Main Line at Whitepot Junction. Just south of the station near the Union Turnpike overpass was a junction with the Montauk Branch (Glendale Junction), with a wye from the westbound Montauk track merging with the Rockaway Branch going north, and another from the eastbound Montauk track going south. The Rockaway line, meanwhile, ran elevated over the Montauk branch on a wooden trestle.
Prior to the construction of the station, Rockaway Beach Branch service north of Ozone Park traveled via the Atlantic Branch to Flatbush Terminal, or the Montauk Branch to Hunters Point Ferry. Between 1908 and 1911, the branch was extended north past the Montauk Branch to the Main Line; this new grade-separated section was known as the Glendale Cut-off, and allowed service from the branch to Penn Station in Manhattan. In early 1927, a new station was conceived at Metropolitan Avenue along the cut-off to alleviate congestion at the Forest Hills Main Line station, and to replace the nearby Glendale station and Atlas Yard station (the current site of The Shops at Atlas Park at Cooper Avenue) on the Montauk Branch. The station was opened on September 15, 1927. It was originally named "Glendale" as a substitute for the former station on the Montauk Branch. It was renamed "Parkside" on October 23, 1927, due to its proximity to Forest Park, after protests over the station name from the local community. The Parkside name is shared with a nearby post office at Metropolitan Avenue and Continental Avenue (71st Avenue).
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