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Greenpoint was the terminal train station for the Evergreen Branch of the Long Island Rail Road.Greenpoint station opened on May 15, 1879 [1] and was located at the intersection of Quay Street and Franklin Street at Greenpoint. [2]
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.
The station was built with a wooden shelter. Grumman needed to extend its airfield runway in 1950, requiring that South Oyster Bay Road, the grade crossing, and the station be moved. The LIRR protested the change, fearing that the extended runway increased the likelihood for a crash between a train and a plane. The LIRR lost its case in ...
Certain variants exist to show different services on each branch: Mountauk west also includes Patchogue and Speonk as eastern terminals; Mountauk mid also includes Speonk as an eastern terminal
Between the 1970s and 1990s, freight traffic into Long Island City also decreased, [14] [15] and in the 1990s, the MTA ceased freight operations with the sale of the LIRR's freight division to the New York and Atlantic Railway. [16] As a result, the Montauk Cutoff saw less use and began to fall into disrepair. [14]
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The LIRR was planning to close this station on March 16, 1998 along with ten other stations due to low ridership, but decided to keep it open due to community opposition. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] A depot with a high-level platform was built between 1998 and 1999, as many stations on the LIRR were getting at the time.
Bellerose station is a commuter rail station along the Main Line and Hempstead Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, located in the Incorporated Villages of Bellerose and Floral Park, in Nassau County, New York.