{"id":10234,"date":"2026-02-14T09:42:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T14:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/?p=10234"},"modified":"2026-02-14T09:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T14:42:20","slug":"douglaston-lirr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/douglaston-lirr\/","title":{"rendered":"Douglaston (LIRR)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Douglaston is a station on the Port Washington Line of the LIRR located in eastern Queens, in the Douglaston neighborhood. Let’s take a look at it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rather dark signage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My train here was running a bit late because of the hordes of passengers that got on at both Woodside and Mets-Willett Point (there was a Mets game that night), rendering the train to both be nearly crush-load for a little bit AND for a 12-car set to be used (which cannot platform fully pretty much anywhere on the line aside from Woodside and Penn Station<\/a>\/Grand Central Terminal<\/a>). As for the station itself, you have a station house (which was surprisingly open at the hour I was here – 11pm?!), level boarding, ticketing machines, a shelter to wait in outside the station house, and even a kiss & ride on each side. As for land use, it’s eastern Queens. You have a small and relatively low density business district around the station. As for accessibility, while the station is accessible, one has to go around and cross via Douglaston Parkway for step-free crossovers. Which can take a while (about 10 minutes, measuring it out). Yikes. Overall though, not a bad station!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Parking! (it’s kinda dark…)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Departure board!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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More parking!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Train meet…..at night!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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See ya!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The other side…..at night!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Little Neck Bay…at night!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The platform shelter…….at night!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Station house!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It’s a bit dark…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The local neighborhood………at night!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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If it weren’t for the fact this neighborhood is largely dead at 11pm, this would be sketchy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tunnel!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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AHT.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The station house and TVMs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another neighborhood shot at night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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LIRR x the Pennsy?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The waiting room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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All red departure board?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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That’s a rather long train<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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woah…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The good: It serves the local neighborhood and is (technically) accessible! Also, service to Manhattan is rather frequent being half-hourly! There’s also a station house that’s open during most hours (seemingly), which can’t be said for most stations I’ve reviewed here.

The bad: WHY IS THERE NO RAMP GOING UNDER THE TRACKS?! DOES THE LIRR HATE ACCESSIBILITY ON THIS LINE OR SOMETHING?!

Nearby points of interest: there’s a whole mini-downtown area here! There’s also a school, a church, and the Allen-Beville House.

Transit connections:
LIRR (Port Washington)
MTA bus (on Rt. 25A) (Q12)

Overall, it’s not a bad station, and the area around it is kinda nice. If anything, I should probably come back during the daytime and check some stuff out.

Rating: 7.5\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Douglaston is a station on the Port Washington Line of the LIRR located in eastern Queens, in the Douglaston neighborhood. Let’s take a look at it. My train here was running a bit late because of the hordes of passengers that got on at both Woodside and Mets-Willett Point (there was a Mets game that … Continue reading “Douglaston (LIRR)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,8,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irl","category-extra","category-othertransit","category-public-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10258,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10234\/revisions\/10258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}