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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 ...
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.
Hillside station (LIRR) / 40.706529; -73.782715. Hillside was a junction and station on the Long Island Rail Road 's Main Line and Montauk Branch in Hillside, Queens, New York City, United States. It was located east of where the Montauk Branch now crosses over the two eastbound passenger tracks and the two freight tracks of the Main Line, just ...
Man Charged With Threatening Boy Confirmed LIRR Employee - Babylon Village, NY - John Petrillo, 46, who was arrested after allegedly threatening a 13-year-old boy, was identified as an LIRR worker ...
The station's original name was High Bridge. In 1916 there was a complaint by the Westbridge Civic Association to have one train in each direction to stop at Westbridge as they do at Forest Hills and Kew Gardens. [2] Westbridge was out of service on January 1, 1939 and was discontinued as a station stop. However, Westbridge last appeared in an ...
Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., 248 N.Y. 339, 162 N.E. 99 (1928), is a leading case in American tort law on the question of liability to an unforeseeable plaintiff.The case was heard by the New York Court of Appeals, the highest state court in New York; its opinion was written by Chief Judge Benjamin Cardozo, a leading figure in the development of American common law and later a United ...
One hundred and thirty Long Island Rail Road employees made more than $200,000 in 2014, according to payroll data recently added to the Empire Center for Public Policy’s transparency website ...
Little Neck is a station on the Long Island Rail Road 's Port Washington Branch in the Little Neck neighborhood of Queens, New York City. The station is at Little Neck Parkway and 39th Road, about half a mile (800 m) north of Northern Boulevard. Little Neck station is 14.5 miles (23.3 km) from Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan, and is the ...