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Rockville Centre is a station along the Babylon Branch of the Long Island Rail Road in Rockville Centre, Nassau County, New York.It is officially located at North Village Avenue and Front Street, north of Sunrise Highway (NY 27) – but the station property spreads west to North Center Avenue and east to North Park Avenue.
English: The center platform at Rockville Centre (LIRR station) in Rockville Centre, New York, looking west toward Lynbrook, Valley Stream, Jamaica, Brooklyn, Long Island City, and Manhattan. Date Taken on 24 September 2012, 10:55:52
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 ).
U.S. Census map of Rockville Centre. According to the United States Census Bureau , the village has a total area of 3.4 square miles (8.8 km 2 ), of which 3.3 square miles (8.5 km 2 ) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km 2 ) – or 2.38% – is water.
On February 17, 1950, two trains collided head-on after an engineer on train 192 ignored an approach signal and the following red signals at Rockville Centre station, leaving 32 dead and more than 100 injured. At the time, it was the worst rail disaster in LIRR history. [177]
On May 2, 2021, bus service was rerouted to Merrick Road in Rockville Centre, bypassing the LIRR station. [40] On September 3, 2023, service via Old Country Road was removed from Roosevelt Field to Mineola, which is now a terminal. [46] n16 Operated by Rockville Centre Bus Corporation, a subsidiary of Bee Line, until 1973 MSBA takeover.
Also located at the facility is the MTA's bus command center, also known as the East New York Administration Building. The brick structure built along with the current depot is located at the west end of the bus depot, facing Fulton Street at the foot of Alabama Avenue. [6] [104] [105] The center was expanded in 1962, and again in 1969. [5]
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