Glen Street station explained

Glen Street
Style:LIRR
Address:Glen Street
Glen Cove, New York
Coordinates:40.8579°N -73.6215°W
Line:Oyster Bay Branch
Distance:27.3miles from [1]
Other: Nassau Inter-County Express:
Platform:2 side platforms
Tracks:2
Parking:Yes
Bicycle:Yes
Passengers:478[2]
Pass Year:2006
Opened:May 16, 1867
Rebuilt:1888
Accessible:yes
Owned:Long Island Rail Road
Zone:7
Former:Glen Cove (1867 - June 28, 1911[3])
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail
Zoom:14

Glen Street (formerly Glen Cove) is a station on the Oyster Bay Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located on Glen Street (the former alignment of NY 107), near Elm Avenue, in the City of Glen Cove, Nassau County, New York.

History

Glen Street station was built by the Glen Cove Branch Rail Road (an LIRR subsidiary) and opened on May 16, 1867, as the original Glen Cove Station, having finally reached the intended destination of the railroad's namesake.[4] [5] It was the terminus of the branch until the line was extended to Locust Valley in 1869. The first incarnation of this station was located to the northwest of the current station on the land now occupied by a Burger King. It was replaced by the current station in 1888.

In 1895, the current Glen Cove station was constructed further north, at the behest of the "Gold Coast" millionaires (such as the Pratts and J.P. Morgan), who felt that the Glen Street station was not dignified enough for them to utilize. Following that station's opening, this station was renamed as Glen Street.

While the Glen Street station's station house is not listed on the National Register of Historic Places like nearby Sea Cliff LIRR station, it has been listed & designated as a New York State Historic Site since 1967.

Station layout

This station has two high-level side platforms, each long enough for one and a half cars to receive and discharge passengers. A small freight yard existed on the east bound side of the tracks, which is now occupied by a soccer field.

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.