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guv1976
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Visit mta.info to check the frequency of LIRR train service from Woodside to Garden City at around your time of arrival into LGA. You could save a few $$$ in rail fare if you took the Q-70 bus to the Roosevelt Avenue subway station and transferred there to the E subway to Jamaica Station. (Transfer is free if you have a Metrocard.) That might or might not be slower than catching the LIRR at Woodside, depending on the train schedules.
And depending on where you are headed in Garden City, the LIRR to Mineola might work too. (There is more frequent service to Mineola than to Garden City.)
At that time of the day there would be a transfer involved at Jamaica on the LIRR. The quickest best case scenario at that time is arrival around 4 pm at the Garden City LIRR station.
The simplest route with least schlepping is the Q70 to Woodside LIRR - Woodside LIRR to Jamaica LIRR transfer to Hempstead bound LIRR