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Sunnyside Yard

Sunnyside Yard is a large coach yard, a railroad yard for passenger cars in the neighborhood of in . The yard is owned by Amtrak and is also used by New Jersey Transit.
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Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
  • Type: Electrical substation
  • Description: railroad yard in Queens, New York
  • Also known as: “Sunnyside Yard Static Converter”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Museum of the Moving Image and New York Presbyterian Church.

Museum
Photo: NickCPrior, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a media museum located in a former building of the historic Astoria Studios, in the neighborhood of in . is situated 2,200 feet north of Sunnyside Yard.

Church
Photo: Americasroof, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a Korean Presbyterian megachurch, located in Long Island City, New York, in the borough of . The church is a Korean presbyterian church founded in 1970. is situated 870 feet east of Sunnyside Yard.

Metro station
Photo: DanTD, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a local station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 36th Street and Northern Boulevard in , it is served by the M train on weekdays, the R train at all times except nights, and the E and F trains at night. is situated 1,900 feet west of Sunnyside Yard.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sunnyside Gardens and Harold Interlocking.

Neighborhood
is a community within , a neighborhood in the New York City borough of . The area was the first development in the United States patterned after the ideas of the garden city movement initiated in England in the first decades of the twentieth century by Ebenezer Howard and Raymond Unwin, specifically and Letchworth Garden City.

Locality
Photo: Jack Boucher, Public domain.
is a large railroad junction in . The busiest rail junction in the United States, it serves trains on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor and the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line and Port Washington Branch, which diverge at the junction.

Photo: S23678, CC BY-SA 3.0.
or Greater New York, also called the Tri-State Area, is the massive metropolitan area around in the states of , , and . It is the biggest and wealthiest metro area in the .

Sunnyside Yard

Latitude
40.75051° or 40° 45′ 2″ north
Longitude
-73.92172° or 73° 55′ 18″ west
Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)
Height
20 feet (6 metres)
Operator
Amtrak
Open location code
87G8Q32H+68
Open­Street­Map ID
way 280569732
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Geo­Names ID
7283374
Wiki­data ID
Q7640905
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Satellite Map

Discover Sunnyside Yard from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Portuguese—“Sunnyside Yard” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “桑尼赛德车辆段”
  • Chinese: “陽邊車廠”
  • Japanese: “サニーサイド・ヤード”
  • Japanese: “サニーサイドヤード”
  • Japanese: “サニーサイド車両基地”
  • Portuguese: “Pátio Sunnyside”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Woodside and Sunnyside.

Nearby Places

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sunnyside Yard”. Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.