Would it be better the R train for new destination in Jamaica Center in Queens instead cause the new service in between Jamaica Center Queens and Bay Ridge-95 Street Brooklyn everyday and late night service in Union Square-14 Street Manhattan and Bay Ridge-95 Street Brooklyn?!

Jamaica Parson/Archer. E train one of the most popular lines in the subway system. I use to always love taking one train to the city being that this is the first stop I can get a seat and ride straight through. You can take this train straight to the city by 42nd & 8th or Penn station. (Downside could be a lot of homeless people in the trains and could have bad smelling trains but usually at night trains tend to be that way)

It's crazy that we pay our fare and cant get a seat because the seats are nasty from all the homeless people .

Definitely one of the most busiest subway station in New York . Security system for station is also really good . But most noticeable and disgusting thing about this station is homeless people . This subway station is kind a safe heaven for them and you always have some stinky smell when you walk around .i wish MTA will pay more attention on this subway station as this station also used by so many tourists for air train connection to JFK.

With one fare, you can get from Nassau County into the city via here. Take n4/4X until here and take the (E) (J) (Z) into Manhattan. Beats taking the LIRR. The station can be cleaner smells like piss on the plaforms.

Stinks and homeless people are not removed to clean the cars, so the trains come in and go out the same dirty and stinking.

No use pouting over the homeless, smells in confined spaces or hoods selling swipes, those are conditions found all over the subway system. Truth, the 8 trains that run overnite on the E line have become de-facto homeless shelters, but thats a function of the cops not forcefully ejecting round-trippers and laid-out sleepers, and the city not having the resources to properly shelter the homeless and mentally ill. Once the rush hour kicks in; the am folks going to work tend to push the sleepers into sitting positions on the trains (no help for the smells), and as long as folks aren't taking pics of the egregious violators and posting it on twitter with hashtags like #NYCT, #MTA, #ELine, #BillDeblasio, #Homeless and such this will continue to be a daily problem. Service on the Eline is contingent on service down the Queens corridor, if the corridor has a sick customer, everyone runs late for work. This is not the fault of transit personnel, who for the most trying of circumstances do a fairly decent job, but when a screamer harasses the conductor because of a fire or police action that they have no control over somewhere ahead of their train, riders should tell the screamer to STFU. It doesn't help anyone to get to work already stressed. There are 2 terminals here, if there are delays on the E line use contingency and the directions on google maps app to take the J line to their destination, both lines take similar time to get to lower manhattan. If none of this is helpful to you, for $2.75 you get 13 miles of track to the heart of NYC and beyond, anything else, there's Uber or Lyft.

This station itself is a friendly reminder that you’ve officially entered the hoodish part of Queens. What can I list about this place that makes it so grotesque.You have the good old homeless who poop in their pants moping up the platform.Then you’ve got the drugs dealers hiding in their corners waiting to pounce so they can give you the ganja.And more importantly lets forget about the mediocree train service.You’re mostly wasting your time waiting a good 20 mins for either one of them to show and leave.Have fun!

Grew up in Jamaica Queens. My family still lives there. I'm old enough to remember when they built Jamaica Center's Parsons-Archer station. I rode the E, J and Z trains to work in Manhattan or to BK when I lived/worked out there. The station is efficient and functional. It could stand to be a little cleaner though, especially the bathrooms!