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Garden City station was originally built in 1872 by the Central Railroad of Long Island, which was built by Alexander Turney Stewart to bring visitors to the Garden City Hotel. The original station was a typical one-story Victorian structure with a second story over the front door, and a back "porch" over high platforms. [ 4 ]
On December 7, 1993, a mass shooting occurred aboard a Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) train in Garden City Park, New York, United States. As the train arrived at the Merillon Avenue station, passenger Colin Ferguson began firing at other passengers with a semi-automatic pistol. Six of the victims were killed and nineteen others were wounded ...
The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is a commuter railway system serving all four counties of Long Island, with two stations in the Manhattan borough of New York City in the U.S. state of New York. Its operator is the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York.
Today, the LIRR uses the secondary to transport track work equipment to and from the Garden City yard. The secondary was also used by the Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus train, which used to use the Garden City Yard to store boxcars when it visited the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, which is near the east end of the secondary ...
On October 19, 1926, the portion of the line between Valley Stream and Franklin Avenue in Garden City was electrified and it was inaugurated with a special train. [132] New through service running between Valley Stream and Mineola began on the West Hempstead Branch the next day.
The LIRR logo combines the circular MTA logo with the text Long Island Rail Road, and appears on the sides of trains. The LIRR is one of two commuter rail systems owned by the MTA, the other being the Metro-North Railroad in the northern suburbs of the New York area. Established in 1834 (the first section between the Brooklyn waterfront and ...
The Babylon Extension was fully rebuilt and became known as the current-day LIRR Central Branch. The portion of the line from Garden City to Plainedge/Bethpage came to be referred to as the Central Extension. In 1939 the Central Extension between Garden City and the end of line in Bethpage was abandoned for regular passenger service.
Clinton Road was a station stop located on the Garden City–Mitchel Field Secondary branch of the Long Island Rail Road in the Village of Garden City in Nassau County, New York, United States. The historic station house is now used as a fire station.