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Huntington is a station on the Port Jefferson Branch of the Long Island Rail Road in Huntington Station, Suffolk County, New York. It is located off New York Avenue ( NY 110 ), which connects it to Melville , the Long Island Expressway , and Huntington .
The station serves the suburban area of Fairfax County and is a popular commuter station with over 3,000 parking spaces. It is located between North Kings Highway ( State Route 241 ) and Huntington Avenue, with parking facilities and station entrances available off of both roads.
Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan is the actual westernmost station of the Long Island Rail Road and its busiest station. The system currently has 126 stations on eleven rail lines called "branches". [1] [4] (Not included in this count are two additional stations that serve employees of the LIRR: Hillside Facility and Boland's Landing).
The Huntington Traction Company was the successor to the Huntington Railroad Company, inheriting the original line between Huntington Railroad Station and Halesite. The company ran the line only as far south as Jericho Turnpike in South Huntington , and used the same wires from the Huntington Railroad.
Huntington Station is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Huntington in Suffolk County, on Long Island, in New York, in the United States. The population was reported as 34,878 with the 2020 census. [2] It is considered part of the greater Huntington area, which is anchored by Huntington.
The track was originally built out in the open, and later enclosed by Cobo Center's late-1980s expansion. The station opened as an infill station on November 14, 1988, [2] as the last of the system's thirteen stations to open. The track passes above the main convention hall, so passing trains can be heard from portions of the convention floor.
Located at 1050 8th Avenue, the station consists of a platform on the south side of the east-west tracks, a small parking lot, and a small building in between. The station contains a waiting room and space for a ticket office, though Amtrak pulled the station agent in the 21st century. Huntington is served by the Cardinal route.
The station was reconstructed in 1948, during which time the current station house was erected. [4] [6] In 1970, the station was electrified, along with the rest of the Port Jefferson Branch between Mineola and Huntington. [7] Since 2007, the station has served as the western terminus of New York State Bicycle Route 25A. [8]