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The Bay Ridge Branch is a rail line owned by the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and operated by the New York and Atlantic Railway in New York City.It is the longest freight-only line of the LIRR, connecting the Montauk Branch and CSX Transportation's Fremont Secondary (to the Hell Gate Bridge) at Glendale, Queens with the Upper New York Bay at Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
The cost to ride the Long Island Rail Road is going up again. ... LIRR ticket price increases, beginning on April 21, will vary based on distance traveled and time of day. Weekly and monthly ...
The line from Hicksville to Syosset was chartered in 1853 as the Hicksville and Syosset Railroad and opened in 1854. The LIRR later planned to extend to Cold Spring Harbor, but Oliver Charlick, the LIRR's president, disagreed over the station's location, so Charlick abandoned the grade and relocated the extension south of Cold Spring, refusing to add a station stop near Cold Spring for years.
The first phase of what is now known as the Oyster Bay Branch opened on January 23, 1865. The line was built by the Glen Cove Branch Rail Road, a subsidiary of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), which was incorporated on December 3, 1858. [5] The line was built as a branch of the LIRR's Main Line from Mineola, and extended to Glen Head. [6]
Summer Saturday Discounts Returning for LIRR - Oyster Bay, NY - Monthly ticketholders can travel anywhere the railroad goes and bring a couple of friends or family members for just $1 each.
The Montauk Branch is a rail line owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York.The line runs the length of Long Island, 115 miles (185 km) from Long Island City to Montauk.
UPDATE 4:20 p.m.: The person who was struck by the train has died, authorities said. Eastbound LIRR service is resuming on one of two tracks through Sayville with residual delays averaging 45 minutes.
Ozone Park station was opened by the New York, Woodhaven and Rockaway Railroad in 1884.. In the early expansion plans of the city's Independent Subway System (IND) in the 1930s, the Rockaway Beach Branch was planned to be absorbed into the new subway, which would have turned Ozone Park into a stop on the IND Queens Boulevard Line or a new Queens crosstown line.