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Westbury is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line located at Union and Post Avenues in Westbury, New York. All trains for the Port Jefferson and Ronkonkoma Branches and some Montauk Branch trains run through the station, although typically, only Port Jefferson Branch trains stop. It is 23.4 miles (37.7 km) east of Pennsylvania Station.
With 324 passenger route-miles, [3] it spans Long Island from Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn to Montauk station at the tip of the southern fork. Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan is the actual westernmost station of the Long Island Rail Road and its busiest station. The system currently has 126 stations on eleven rail lines called "branches".
1909 Map of Queens (now Queens Village) station. Between March and November 1837, the current site of Queens Village station was the site of an early Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad station named Flushing Avenue station then renamed DeLancey Avenue station and later named Brushville station until it was moved to what is today 212nd Street, the site of the former Bellaire station, which was used ...
Freeport LIRR station Replaced New York and Long Island Traction Company "Brooklyn-Freeport" line on April 5, 1926; Was Hempstead Bus Corp at 1973 MSBA takeover. [38] Originally operated as a loop from the Hempstead Transit Center serving South Hempstead, Rockville Centre, Oceanside, East Rockaway, Lynbrook, and West Hempstead
It is publicly owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which refers to it as MTA Long Island Rail Road. In 2023, the system had a ridership of 75,186,900, or about 276,800 per weekday as of the third quarter of 2024. The LIRR logo combines the circular MTA logo with the text Long Island Rail Road, and
On October 30, 2013, the LIRR unveiled a renovated Queens Village station, with passenger elevators, improved lighting, security cameras and a repainted building. [ 93 ] In the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)'s 2010–2014 capital program, it proposed lengthening the four-car-long platforms at Kew Gardens to allow additional train ...
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.
December 31, 2011 (MTA Long Island Bus) Headquarters: East Garden City, New York: Locale: Nassau County, New York: Service area: Most of Nassau County (except for northern Town of Oyster Bay), parts of Queens and Suffolk County: Service type: Bus service: Routes: 41 (plus three shuttle routes) Hubs: 4 major bus hubs, 33 LIRR stations, and 5 New ...