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Schematic diagram of Long Island Rail Road services and stations. The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is a commuter railway system serving all four counties of Long Island, with two stations in the Manhattan borough of New York City in the U.S. state of New York. Its operator is the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York.
The station was established in October 1880 with the opening of the New York and Long Beach Railroad (NY&LB), on the west side of Ocean Avenue and the east side of the tracks, and contained a freight house that was built between October 1 and November 5, 1880. [5] The station became part of the LIRR system in 1909, when the NY&LB merged with ...
The station was opened in 1898 by the New York and Long Beach Railroad and originally was known as South Lynbrook station until 1924. [5]Centre Avenue station was originally located a block to the west and had a station house, but was moved east when high-level platforms were installed in the late 1960s in order to facilitate the new M1 railcars.
Most of the Rockaway Line dates back to the 1880s when it was operated as the New York, Woodhaven and Rockaway Railroad; [11] the Far Rockaway station had been in operation since 1869 as part of the South Side Railroad of Long Island. [12] In 1892, the line first saw service by the Long Island Rail Road from its Atlantic Branch.
Due to the success of the branch, the South Side built the 200-foot (60 m) South Side Pavilion, a restaurant on the beach at what is today Beach 30th Street.With an additional subsidiary known as the Rockaway Railway (1871-1872; Not to be confused with the Rockaway Village Railroad), the line was extended west to the Seaside House (Beach 103rd Street) in 1872 and Neptune House (Beach 116th ...
Long Island City, Queens: Long Island City: New York City Subway: 7 and <7> (at Vernon Boulevard-Jackson Avenue) MTA Bus: Q103 NYC Ferry: East River Hunterspoint Avenue: New York City Subway: 7 and <7> (at Hunters Point Avenue), G (at 21st Street) New York City Bus: B62 MTA Bus: Q67 Woodside, Queens: Woodside: Long Island Rail Road: Port ...
Rockville Centre is a station along the Babylon Branch of the Long Island Rail Road in Rockville Centre, Nassau County, New York.It is officially located at North Village Avenue and Front Street, north of Sunrise Highway (NY 27) – but the station property spreads west to North Center Avenue and east to North Park Avenue.
The Ronkonkoma Branch is a rail service operated by the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) in the U.S. state of New York.On LIRR maps and printed schedules, the "Ronkonkoma Branch" includes trains running along the railroad's Main Line from Hicksville (where the Port Jefferson Branch leaves the Main Line) to Ronkonkoma, and between Ronkonkoma and the Main Line's eastern terminus at Greenport.