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The New York and Atlantic Railway (NY&A) (reporting mark NYA) is a short line railroad on Long Island, within the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of New York.It was formed in 1997 to provide freight service over the tracks of the Long Island Rail Road, a public commuter rail agency which had decided to privatize its freight operations.
The station house is owned by the Town of Riverhead and the MTA uses a high level platform and other amenities instead. The station is also near the west end of the Riverhead Restoration Site of the Railroad Museum of Long Island. A collection of historic Long Island Rail Road cars and maintenance equipment can be found near the station. [5]
New York City Subway: 7 and <7> (at Hunters Point Avenue) New York City Bus: B62 MTA Bus: Q67 Served only by 11 AM peak trains and 10 PM peak trains daily [154] Woodside, Queens Woodside: 3.1 (5.0) 1869 [155] Long Island Rail Road: Port Washington Branch New York City Subway: 7 and <7> (at 61st Street–Woodside) New York City Bus: Q32
The Long Island Rail Road (reporting mark LI), or LIRR, is a railroad in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of New York, stretching from Manhattan to the eastern tip of Suffolk County on Long Island. The railroad currently operates a public commuter rail service, with its freight operations contracted to the New York and Atlantic Railway.
As part of the agreement with the Long Island Rail Road, the property occupied by the old right-of-way was transferred to Cord Meyer and Alrick Man. [46] The old railroad right-of-way was built up with residences, [51] but in 1936, portions of the right-of-way within Forest Hills, around Austin Street and 75th Avenue, were still unused.
Long Island Rail Road (1876-present) Central Railroad of Long Island was built on Long Island , New York , by Alexander Turney Stewart , who was also the founder of Garden City . The railroad was established in 1871, then merged with the Flushing and North Side Railroad in 1874 to form the Flushing, North Shore and Central Railroad .
Bethpage station is a commuter rail station along the Main Line of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located at Stewart Avenue and Jackson Avenue, in Bethpage, New York, and serves Ronkonkoma Branch trains. Trains that travel along the Central Branch also use these tracks, but do not stop here.
Bay Shore is a major railroad station on the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, located on Park Avenue and Oak Street in Bay Shore, New York, to the north of Union Boulevard (CR 50) and west of Fourth Avenue. Ferries to Fire Island board from a nearby port located to the station's south. [3]