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The new LIRR terminal at Grand Central, located 14 stories below ground, has 350,000 square feet (33,000 m 2) with four platforms and eight tracks, plus a new retail and dining concourse with 25 retail spaces. There are two caverns containing one platform and two tracks on each of two levels; a mezzanine is located between the two platform levels.
Its operator is the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York. Serving 301,763 passengers per day as of 2007 [ 1 ] and 88.5 million riders for the year of 2008, [ 2 ] it is the busiest commuter railroad in the United States.
In 2003, the LIRR and Metro-North started a pilot program in which passengers traveling within New York City were allowed to buy one-way tickets for $2.50. [94] The special reduced-fare CityTicket, proposed by the New York City Transit Riders Council, [94] was formally introduced in 2004. [95]
The West Side Yard (officially the John D. Caemmerer West Side Yard) is a rail yard of 30 tracks owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on the west side of Manhattan in New York City. Used to store commuter rail trains operated by the subsidiary Long Island Rail Road , the 26.17-acre (10.59 ha) yard sits between West 30th Street ...
In February 1965, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller suggested that the New York State Legislature create an authority to purchase, operate, and modernize the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR). The LIRR, then a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), had been operating under bankruptcy protection since 1949.
Pages in category "Former Long Island Rail Road stations in New York City" The following 76 pages are in this category, out of 76 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The following streetcar lines once operated on Long Island, New York in Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk Counties.Many of these systems were owned by the Long Island Consolidated Electrical Companies, a holding company partially owned by the Long Island Rail Road, and Interborough Rapid Transit Company between March 30, 1905 and July 18, 1935.
One was the Sea Cliff Village Trolley, owned by the Nassau County Railway and the other was the Glen Cove Railroad (not to be confused with the old LIRR subsidiary) which ran along the Oyster Bay Branch right-of-way into Downtown Glen Cove in 1905. From 1909 to 1956, it also contained a wooden pedestrian bridge.