Glen Cove station explained

Glen Cove
Style:Long Island Rail Road
Style2:left aligned version
Address:Duck Pond Road & Pearsall Avenue
Glen Cove, NY
Coordinates:40.8652°N -73.617°W
Line:Oyster Bay Branch
Distance:27.9miles from [1]
Other:Mid Island Taxi
Platform:2 side platforms
Tracks:2
Parking:Yes
Bicycle:Yes
Passengers:368[2]
Pass Year:2006
Opened:1895
Accessible:yes
Owned:Long Island Rail Road
Zone:7
Former:Nassau (1895 - June 28, 1911[3])
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail
Zoom:14

Glen Cove is a station along the Oyster Bay Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located between Pearsall Avenue and Norfolk Lane north of Duck Pond Road, in the City of Glen Cove, Nassau County, New York.

No bus access is available at the Glen Cove station (unlike at the nearby Glen Street station). However, local taxicabs do stop here.

History

The Glen Cove station, (née Nassau), was built in 1895, at the behest of the "Gold Coast" millionaires. These wealthy locals, such as the Pratts and J.P. Morgan, who were looking for a more dignified station to disembark at than the existing station on Glen Street.[4] [5] The picturesque station has been featured in several movies, including Sabrina, Hello Again, and several commercials.[6]

Station layout

This station has two 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. News: Glen Cove Station Name to be Changed . June 4, 2018 . The Daily Star . June 12, 1911 . 1.
  4. Web site: Seyfried . Vincent . The Long Island Rail Road: The age of expansion, 1863-1880 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20141220134501/http://digitalarchives.queenslibrary.org/vital/access/services/Download/aql%3A337/SOURCE1?view=true . 2014-12-20 . 203.
  5. Book: Morrison, David D. . Long Island Rail Road: Oyster Bay Branch . March 5, 2018 . Arcadia Publishing . 9781467128544 . en.
  6. http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirr/stations/GlenCove-AudreyHepburn-DavidDog.jpg Glen Cove: 1954 movie "Sabrina" starring Audrey Hepburn with her dog; David Archive: Dave Morrison (TrainsAreFun)