Travel to Brooklyn

The final choice is the controversial G, which snakes from Long Island City through Williamsburg and Downtown Brooklyn before ending near Prospect Park. Although it may look like the best way to get from Queens to Brooklyn, it is notoriously slow and irregular, and sometimes lines that go through Manhattan are faster.

The L also goes into Queens from Brooklyn but so briefly that it's not a practical option for getting between the two boroughs.

The Q train travels from Coney Island to Midtown Manhattan, passing through Sheep head Bay, Kings Highway, Midwood, Kensington, Park Slope and South Brooklyn, and parallels the main roads of Ocean Parkway and Coney Island Avenue. It also stops at the main transfer stations of Atlantic Avenue, 14th Street -Union Square, and 34th Street, making it easy to transfer to other main lines, including the B, 1, 2, 3, R, J, M, and Z trains.

The F train route is very similar to that of the Q train except that its stops are on the opposite side of Ocean Parkway.

LIRR

The Long Island Rail Road has a major station at Atlantic Terminal (Atlantic Avenue subway station), which is accessible from the Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street combined subway stop, served by the 2, 3, 4, 5 (on weekdays), B (on weekdays), D, N, Q, and R lines and near the Lafayette Avenue station of the C train and the Fulton Street station of the G train. Other LIRR stops in Brooklyn are Nostrand Av. at Atlantic Avenue (served by the A and C subway lines a few blocks away on Fulton Street) and East New York (served by the A, C, L, J, and Z a few