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Looking east at Floral Park, from Platform C, prior to the construction of the Main Line's third track. / 40.724622; -73.706398. Floral Park is a Long Island Rail Road train station in Floral Park, New York, at Tulip and Atlantic Avenues, on the Main Line and Hempstead Branch just west of their split. Most service is provided by trains on the ...
Floral Park station was built between October and November 1878 as "Stewart Junction," for the junction between the LIRR Main Line and the Central Railroad of Long Island built by Alexander Turney Stewart. Five years earlier the CRRLI had bridged the LIRR, and the station served as a connection between both lines.
Map. 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. It was finally acquired by the Long Island Rail ...
One of the region's most significant mass transit ventures, the $2.6 billion track will eventually run along an existing 9.8-mile segment of the Main Line, between Floral Park and Hicksville. The ...
The Third Track is the centerpiece of the larger $2.5 billion Long Island Rail Road Main Line Expansion Project, which includes the renewal of five LIRR stations along the route (New Hyde Park ...
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It parallels the Main Line past Bellerose to Floral Park, where it splits southward and continues east via the village of Garden City to Hempstead Crossing. There it turns south to the final two stations, Country Life Press and Hempstead. LIRR maps and schedules show Hempstead Branch service continuing west along the Main Line to Jamaica.
4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) The Creedmoor Branch was the name of a short branch that the Long Island Rail Road gave to the right of way of tracks between its Floral Park station and Creedmoor State Hospital in Queens, New York. The branch existed from 1879 to 1966 finally being torn up and demapped in the early 1970s.
History. The trackage of the Garden City–Mitchell Field Secondary, originated in the 1870s as part of the Central Railroad of Long Island (CRRLI). Built by Alexander Turney Stewart, the CRRLI was a mixed use passenger and freight railroad extending from Flushing all the way through central Long Island to Bethpage, passing through the towns of Floral Park, Garden City, Plainedge, and Island ...
LIRR Passenger service operated to Chambers Street between May 1909 and September 1917. The Creedmoor Branch, a remnant of the Central Railroad of Long Island (CRRLI) of Alexander Turney Stewart, was a short branch from the Main Line at Floral Park northwest through Creedmoor. It once went as far northwest as Flushing.
Constantine and Michael Hatzidakis propose constructing a 35,808-square-foot, 12-unit, market-rate residential building, including 6,166 square feet of ground-floor retail space and parking at 41 ...