Deer Park station

Deer Park
Deer Park
	Deer Park station, as seen from the parking lot prior to its 2010s renovation.
General information
Location	Pineaire Drive, Grant (Executive) Avenue & Long Island Avenue; Bay Shore, New York
Coordinates	40°46′10″N73°17′37″W / 40.76944°N 73.29361°W
Owned by	Long Island Rail Road
Line(s)	Main Line
Distance	38.4 mi (61.8 km) from Long Island City
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	Suffolk County Transit : 4, 5 ; Tanger Outlets shuttle
Construction
Parking	Yes; Free
Bicycle facilities	Yes; Bicycle Rack
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	9
History
Opened	1987
Electrified	January 18, 1988; 750 V (DC) third rail
Passengers
2006	5,417
Services
Former services
Proposed services

Last updated December 19, 2023

Deer Park is a station along the Main Line (Ronkonkoma Branch) of the Long Island Rail Road. It is officially located at Pineaire Drive, Executive (formerly Grant) Avenue, and Long Island Avenue in Baywood, New York.

History

Deer Park, sometimes mentioned as Deerpark,^[3] station was previously located at the bridge over New York State Route 231, until it was moved as part of a major reconstruction project of the line at Ronkonkoma, Central Islip, Brentwood, Deer Park, and Wyandanch. The original station was built in 1842, then rebuilt in 1884, and again 1936 for the bridge over Deer Park Avenue (NY 231 did not exist at the time). The 1987-built station was built close to the former Pine Aire station near the Pilgrim State Psychiatric Center (see below), served as a replacement for both stations, and was also originally planned also to replace Brentwood Station until public opposition from Brentwood thwarted that proposal. As a result, some people refer to it as "Pine Aire" station rather than its given name.^[4] In the process of reconstruction, a former one-lane bridge was blocked off.^[5]

Pineaire station

Pineaire (or Pine Aire) was a station stop along the Ronkonkoma Branch of the Long Island Rail Road in West Brentwood, New York. It was located east of the Pilgrim State Hospital Spur than the currently combined Deer Park-Pineaire complex. In fact it was located on the east side of Sagtikos State Parkway on the opposite side of the intersection of Pine Aire Drive (formerly Edgewood Road) and Manatuck Boulevard.^[6] The station first opened around 1915 near the former Thompson's Station across from a freight spur, and was finally closed around October 1986, when the two stations were being combined into one.

Pilgrim State Hospital station

The former Pilgrim State Hospital station is located within Pilgrim State Psychiatric Center in West Brentwood, at the end of a spur leading south to the main line. The station was opened on October 1, 1931 and closed on May 21, 1978.^[7]^[8] The remains of the station can be found where G Road becomes Suffolk County Road 106 on the southwest corner of the Sagtikos State Parkway underpass.

Edgewood station

Nearly a century before the current Deer Park station was built, another LIRR station was built between the former Deer Park and Pine Aire Stations in the same area, named Edgewood. The station was a two-story wooden depot built in 1892 on Grant Avenue by a developer, but originally only existed as a signal stop. Service began to decline by June 1911 and it was closed down in 1914. Local residents used the station for scrap lumber. By the 1940s it became the site of the spur for Edgewood State Hospital,^[9] which began just west of the current Deer Park station and ran parallel to the west side of Grant Avenue.^[10] The hospital closed in 1971, and was demolished in 1989. While the existing Deer Park station is located on the west side of Executive Boulevard, the site of Edgewood station was on the east side of Grand Avenue and is occupied by a miniature golf course today.

Station layout

The station has two high-level side platforms, each 12 cars long.

M	Mezzanine	Crossover between platforms
P Platform level	Platform A, side platform
	Track 1	← Ronkonkoma Branch toward Grand Central Madison or Penn Station (Wyandanch)
	Track 2	← Ronkonkoma Branch toward Ronkonkoma (Brentwood) →
	Platform B, side platform
	Ground level	Entrance/exit and parking

Gallery

Deer Park station
Penn Station-bound train arriving.
Penn Station-bound train departing.
Westbound view from the Executive Drive railroad crossing.

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References

↑ Long Island Rail Road (May 14, 2012). "TIMETABLE No. 4" (PDF). p. III. Retrieved August 4, 2022.
↑ Average weekday, 2006 LIRR Origin and Destination Study
↑ "American Railroad Journal, and General Advertiser for Railroads, Canals ..." google.com. 1845.
↑ Valenti, John (April 25, 2007). "Pine Aire station fire disrupts LIRR service". Newsday.
↑ Huneke, Arthur John (April 11, 2003). "EAST OF EDGEWOOD". Arrt's Arrchives. Archived from the original on February 16, 2015.
↑ Historic Map Works LLC. "Historic Map: Plate 005, Atlas: Suffolk County 1941 Western Half, New York - Historic Map Works, Residential Genealogy ™". historicmapworks.com.
↑ Huneke, Arthur John (January 4, 2019). "PILGRIM STATE HOSPITAL". Arrt's Arrchives. Archived from the original on December 8, 2021. Retrieved March 28, 2023.
↑ "Visitors Lose Train Link to Mental Hospital on L.I." The New York Times. May 22, 1978. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved April 12, 2022.
↑ Huneke, Arthur John (January 6, 2015). "EDGEWOOD". Arrt's Arrchives. Archived from the original on December 10, 2021.
↑ "Edgewood State Hospital Maps". edgewoodhospital.com. Archived from the original on June 28, 2012.

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[ett-20120514-1] Long Island Rail Road (May 14, 2012). "TIMETABLE No. 4" (PDF). p. III. Retrieved August 4, 2022.

[2] Average weekday, 2006 LIRR Origin and Destination Study

[3] "American Railroad Journal, and General Advertiser for Railroads, Canals ..." google.com. 1845.

[4] Valenti, John (April 25, 2007). "Pine Aire station fire disrupts LIRR service". Newsday.

[5] Huneke, Arthur John (April 11, 2003). "EAST OF EDGEWOOD". Arrt's Arrchives. Archived from the original on February 16, 2015.

[6] Historic Map Works LLC. "Historic Map: Plate 005, Atlas: Suffolk County 1941 Western Half, New York - Historic Map Works, Residential Genealogy ™". historicmapworks.com.

[7] Huneke, Arthur John (January 4, 2019). "PILGRIM STATE HOSPITAL". Arrt's Arrchives. Archived from the original on December 8, 2021. Retrieved March 28, 2023.

[8] "Visitors Lose Train Link to Mental Hospital on L.I." The New York Times. May 22, 1978. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved April 12, 2022.

[9] Huneke, Arthur John (January 6, 2015). "EDGEWOOD". Arrt's Arrchives. Archived from the original on December 10, 2021.

[10] "Edgewood State Hospital Maps". edgewoodhospital.com. Archived from the original on June 28, 2012.

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