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History of the Long Island Rail Road. The Long Island Rail Road is a railroad owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in the U.S. state of New York. It is the oldest United States railroad still operating under its original name and charter. [1] It consolidated several other companies in the late 19th century.
Location. The Long Island City station is a rail terminal of the Long Island Rail Road in the Hunters Point and Long Island City neighborhoods of Queens, New York City. Located within the City Terminal Zone at Borden Avenue and Second Street, it is the westernmost LIRR station in Queens and the end of both the Main Line and Montauk Branch.
130 LIRR Employees Made More Than $200K Last Year - Northport, NY - See the full list of workers who cracked the $200,000 mark in 2014.
130 LIRR Employees Made More Than $200K Last Year - West Islip, NY - See the full list of workers who cracked the $200,000 mark in 2014.
WI Man Electrocuted While Working on LIRR - West Islip, NY - A LIRR employee was killed when came into contact with the third rail on Sunday.
John Petrillo, 46, who was arrested after allegedly threatening a 13-year-old boy, was identified as an LIRR worker, Patch confirmed.
The facility includes an employees-only station which is the first stop along the LIRR Main Line east of Jamaica station. The line is served by select trains on the Hempstead, Ronkonkoma, Oyster Bay, Montauk, and Port Jefferson branches.
On December 7, 1993, a mass shooting occurred aboard a Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) train in Garden City Park, New York, United States. As the train arrived at the Merillon Avenue station, passenger Colin Ferguson began firing at other passengers with a semi-automatic pistol. Six of the victims were killed and nineteen others were wounded ...