Centre Avenue | |||||||||||
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Location | Centre Avenue & Forest Avenue East Rockaway, New York | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°38′54″N73°39′50″W / 40.648272°N 73.663915°W Coordinates: 40°38′54″N73°39′50″W / 40.648272°N 73.663915°W | ||||||||||
Owned by | Long Island Rail Road | ||||||||||
Line(s) | Long Beach Branch | ||||||||||
Distance | 2.5 mi (4.0 km) from Valley Stream [1] | ||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||
Parking | Yes [2] | ||||||||||
Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||
Fare zone | 7 [3] | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 1898 (NY&LB) | ||||||||||
Electrified | September 1910 750 V (DC) third rail | ||||||||||
Previous names | South Lynbrook (1898–1924) | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
2012-14 | 1,460 [4] | ||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||
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Centre Avenue is one of two railroad stations of the Long Island Rail Road in East Rockaway, New York. The station is officially located at Forest Avenue between Rocklyn and Centre Avenues, one block east of Atlantic Avenue.
The station was opened in 1898 by the New York and Long Beach Railroad and originally was known as South Lynbrook station until 1924.
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. Parts of the original platform are still visible along the trackside towards Lynbrook. [5] The station's parking lot is adjacent to the site of the former station.
This station has two high-level wheelchair-accessible side platforms, each 10 cars long, with shelters and ticket vending machines.
Parking is available for vehicles with East Rockaway village residential permits and is located one block west, near the site of the former station. Limited non-resident parking is also available. [2]
Locust Manor is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Atlantic Branch in the Locust Manor neighborhood of Queens, New York City. The station is located at Farmers Boulevard and Bedell Street and is 14.0 miles (22.5 km) from Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan. The stop serves the Rochdale, Queens section and its Rochdale Village apartment complex, and was also the stop for the racecourse on which Rochdale Village was erected, Jamaica Race Course. Today it contains fiberglass populuxe designed shelters on high-level platforms.
The East New York station is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Atlantic Branch in the East New York and Ocean Hill neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York City, where that branch passes through the Jamaica Pass. It is generally served by the Far Rockaway, Hempstead, and West Hempstead Branches of the LIRR. The East New York station also formerly served the LIRR's Bay Ridge Branch until passenger service on that branch ended in 1924.
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Cedarhurst is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Far Rockaway Branch in Cedarhurst, in Nassau County, New York, United States. The station is located at Cedarhurst Avenue and Chestnut Street, one block west of Central Avenue.
Lawrence is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Far Rockaway Branch in Lawrence, in Nassau County, New York, United States. The station is officially located at Lawrence Avenue and Bayview Avenue, two blocks west of Central Avenue. However, the actual location is two blocks north of Central Avenue, and Bayview Avenue is on the opposite side of the tracks. Lawrence Station is 21.8 miles (35.1 km) from Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan.
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Roslyn is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Oyster Bay Branch. It is located at Lincoln Avenue and Railroad Avenue, west of Roslyn Road in Roslyn Heights, New York.
Farmingdale is a historic railroad station in Farmingdale, New York, along the Main Line of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located just east of Secatogue Avenue, on South Front Street and Atlantic Avenue. The station has two platforms, with an underground pedestrian walkway connecting them. The station house is on the south platform. Parking is available on both sides of the tracks.
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