Albertson station explained

Albertson
Style:Long Island Rail Road
Address:I.U. Willets Road and Albertson Avenue
Albertson, New York
Coordinates:40.7719°N -73.6417°W
Line:Oyster Bay Branch
Distance:20.8miles from [1]
Platform:2 side platforms
Tracks:2
Parking:Yes
Passengers:594[2]
Pass Year:2006
Opened:March 1874 (as a milk station)
June 1875 (flag stop)
Rebuilt:1913, 1997-1998
Accessible:yes
Owned:Long Island Rail Road
Zone:7
Former:Albertson's
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail
Zoom:14

Albertson is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Oyster Bay Branch. The station is on the north side of I.U. Willets Road at Albertson Avenue on the AlbertsonRoslyn Heights border, in Nassau County, New York. The parking lot is located on the south side of I.U. Willets Road. The Albertson station is located adjacent to the Clark Botanic Garden.

History

The station was originally opened with name Albertson's and originally opened as a milk station in March 1874 and opened as a flag stop in June 1875 by the Glen Cove Branch Rail Road.[3] [4] The station was renamed as Albertson in 1903.[5] [6] The station had a depot building built in 1911, and it lasted until 1954, when it was razed.[7]

On November 30, 1943, a 53-year-old woman driving a Ford sedan was killed when a train collided with her vehicle as she was driving across the I.U. Willets Road grade crossing, adjacent to the Albertson station.[8] At the time of the incident, the grade crossing was not equipped with gates.

In 1960, the LIRR planned to close the station as well as East Williston station and replace them both with a single station between the two sites.[9] The project also called for the elimination of the grade crossing with NY 25B, located south of I.U. Willets Road. However, public opposition to the proposal led to those plans ultimately being cancelled, and the existing Albertson and East Williston stations would remain open.[10]

Between fall 1997 and fall 1998, the station's current concrete, high-level platforms were built. As part of this station reconstruction project, ramps from the street to the platforms were installed to make the station compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

Station layout

The station has two slightly offset high-level side platforms, each four cars long.

Platform A, side platform
Track 1← toward or
Track 2 toward
Platform B, side platform

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: TIMETABLE No. 4 . Long Island Rail Road . May 14, 2012 . August 7, 2022 . VI.
  2. Average weekday, 2006 LIRR Origin and Destination Study
  3. Book: Morrison, David D. . Long Island Rail Road: Oyster Bay Branch . March 5, 2018 . Arcadia Publishing . 9781467128544 . en.
  4. Web site: Seyfried . Vincent . The Long Island Rail Road: The Age of Expansion, 1863-1880 . 2023-05-01 . digitalarchives.queenslibrary.org . 203.
  5. Web site: Staff . Roslyn News . 2023-08-14 . Riding The Rails of Roslyn Roslyn News . 2023-12-16 . en-US.
  6. Web site: Underutilized Tracks: A Chronicle of Electric Train Service to East Williston and a History of the Neighboring Communities. Derek Stadler. 2015-12-28. en-US.
  7. Web site: LIRR Station History (TrainsAreFun.com) . 2008-01-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070927235238/http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirrphotos/LIRR%20Station%20History.htm . 2007-09-27 . dead .
  8. News: December 1, 1943 . Albertson Woman Killed as LIRR Train Plows Into Car on Gateless Crossing . . 3 . ProQuest.
  9. News: May 19, 1960 . LIRR Abandons Plan For Combined Station . . 45 . ProQuest.
  10. News: 2 L.I. Stations Kept: Railroad Blows to Opponents of Single One in Between . The New York Times . May 19, 1960 . 2023-03-05.