# City Terminal Zone

The City Terminal Zone is the set of Long Island Rail Road lines within New York City west of Jamaica station, except the Port Washington Branch.

## Routes
### Current routes

There are four routes that are part of the City Terminal Zone:
* New York Penn Station (NYP) – Trains that, from Jamaica, travel west along the Main Line to Penn Station in Manhattan via the East River Tunnels.
* Grand Central Madison (GCM) – Trains that travel along the Main Line to Grand Central Madison via East Side Access, which includes the lower level of the 63rd Street Tunnel and a new tunnel under Park Avenue. Due to clearance restrictions in the tunnel, the C3 bilevel cars cannot access the terminal.
* Atlantic Terminal (AT) – Trains that travel along the Atlantic Branch to Brooklyn.
* Long Island City (LIC) – Trains that serve Hunterspoint Avenue and Long Island City in Queens. These trains also use the Main Line west of Jamaica, but typically skip Woodside, Forest Hills, and Kew Gardens. This route is served only during weekday rush hours in the peak direction (to Long Island City in the morning, from Long Island City in the afternoon).

### Former routes

The City Terminal Zone formerly included the Lower Montauk Branch from Long Island City to Jamaica until passenger service on that route was discontinued in November 2012. This line formerly included Penny Bridge, Haberman, Fresh Pond, Glendale, and Richmond Hill stations until they were closed in March 1998.

## Stations

East of Jamaica, trains continue in Long Island on the Main Line (Hempstead, Oyster Bay, Port Jefferson, Ronkonkoma), Atlantic Branch (Far Rockaway and Long Beach), and Montauk Branch (West Hempstead, Babylon, Montauk).
The Atlantic Terminal, Nostrand Avenue, and East New York stations are primarily served by a shuttle running between Atlantic Terminal and Jamaica. These stations are also served by West Hempstead Branch trains, as well as a limited number of weekday peak trains from the Hempstead and Babylon branches. Other trains traveling east of Jamaica only run to Penn Station, Grand Central Madison, or Long Island City.
| Zone | Routes | Routes | Routes | Routes | Location | Station | Connections and notes |
| Zone | NYP | GCM | AT | LIC | Location | Station | Connections and notes |
| 1 | ■ | | | | Midtown Manhattan | Pennsylvania Station | Amtrak (long distance): Cardinal, Crescent, Lake Shore Limited, Palmetto, Silver Meteor Amtrak (intercity): Acela Express, Adirondack, Carolinian, Empire Service, Ethan Allen Express, Keystone Service, Maple Leaf, Northeast Regional, Pennsylvanian, Vermonter NJ Transit Rail: Gladstone, Montclair-Boonton, Morristown, Northeast Corridor, North Jersey Coast, Raritan Valley lines New York City Subway: 1, ​2, and ​3 (at 34th Street–Penn Station), A, ​C, and ​E (at 34th Street–Penn Station) New York City Bus: M4, M7, M20, M34 SBS, M34A SBS, Q32 |
| 1 | | ■ | | | Midtown Manhattan | Grand Central Madison | Metro-North Railroad: Harlem, Hudson, and New Haven lines New York City Subway: 4, 5, 6, 7 and <7>​, and S (at Grand Central–42nd Street station) |
| 1 | | | | ■ | Long Island City, Queens | Long Island City | New York City Subway: 7 and <7>​ (at Vernon Boulevard-Jackson Avenue) MTA Bus: Q103 NYC Ferry: East River |
| 1 | | | | ■ | Long Island City, Queens | Hunterspoint Avenue | New York City Subway: 7 and <7>​ (at Hunters Point Avenue), G (at 21st Street) New York City Bus: B62 MTA Bus: Q67 |
| 1 | ■ | ■ | | | Woodside, Queens | Woodside | Long Island Rail Road: Port Washington Branch New York City Subway: 7 and <7>​ at (61st Street–Woodside) New York City Bus: Q32 MTA Bus: Q18, Q53 SBS, Q70 SBS |
| 1 | ■ | ■ | | | Forest Hills, Queens | Forest Hills | New York City Subway: E, ​F, <F>, ​M, and ​R (at Forest Hills–71st Avenue) MTA Bus: Q32, Q60, Q64 |
| 1 | ■ | ■ | | | Kew Gardens, Queens | Kew Gardens | New York City Bus: Q10, Q37 MTA Bus: QM18 |
| 1 | | | ■ | | Downtown Brooklyn | Atlantic Terminal | New York City Subway: 2, ​3, ​4, ​5​, B, ​D, N, ​Q​, R and ​W​ (at Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center) New York City Bus: B41, B45, B63, B65, B67 |
| 1 | | | ■ | | Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn | Nostrand Avenue | New York City Subway: A and ​C (at Nostrand Avenue) New York City Bus: B52, B44 SBS, B65 |
| 1 | | | ■ | | East New York, Brooklyn | East New York | New York City Subway: L at (Atlantic Avenue), A, ​C​, J​, L​, and Z (at Broadway Junction) New York City Bus: B12, B20, B25, B83, Q24, Q56 |
| 1 | | | ■ | | Richmond Hill, Queens | Boland's Landing | Employees only |
| 3 | ■ | ■ | ■ | ■ | Jamaica, Queens | Jamaica | Long Island Rail Road: Babylon, Far Rockaway, Hempstead, Long Beach, Montauk, Oyster Bay, Port Jefferson, Ronkonkoma, West Hempstead branches New York City Subway: E​, ​J, and ​Z (at Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue–JFK Airport) New York City Bus: Q20A, Q20B, Q24, Q30, Q31, Q43, Q44 SBS, Q54, Q56 MTA Bus: Q6, Q8, Q9, Q25, Q34, Q40, Q41, Q60, Q65 Nassau Inter-County Express: n4 AirTrain JFK: Jamaica Station Route |

### Future stations

The MTA planned a new station in Sunnyside, Queens, once East Side Access was completed. The MTA later proposed in their 20-year needs assessment for 2025 to 2044 that Sunnyside station serve both the LIRR and the Metro-North Railroad, with the latter providing service to Penn Station after Penn Station Access is completed.