Deer Park station
Deer Park | |||||||||||||
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Parking | Yes; Free | ||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | Yes; Bicycle Rack | ||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||
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Fare zone | 9 | ||||||||||||
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Opened | 1987 | ||||||||||||
Electrified | January 18, 1988 750 V (DC) third rail | ||||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||||
2006 | 5,417[2] | ||||||||||||
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Deer Park is a station along the Main Line (Ronkonkoma Branch) of the Long Island Rail Road. It is officially located at Pineaire Drive, Executive (formerly Grant) Avenue, and Long Island Avenue in Baywood, New York.
History
Deer Park, sometimes mentioned as Deerpark,
Pineaire station
Pineaire (or Pine Aire) was a station stop along the
Pilgrim State Hospital station
The former Pilgrim State Hospital station is located within
Edgewood station
Nearly a century before the current Deer Park station was built, another LIRR station was built between the former Deer Park and Pine Aire Stations in the same area, named Edgewood. The station was a two-story wooden depot built in 1892 on Grant Avenue by a developer, but originally only existed as a signal stop. Service began to decline by June 1911 and it was closed down in 1914. Local residents used the station for scrap lumber. By the 1940s it became the site of the spur for Edgewood State Hospital,[9] which began just west of the current Deer Park station and ran parallel to the west side of Grant Avenue.[10] The hospital closed in 1971, and was demolished in 1989. While the existing Deer Park station is located on the west side of Executive Boulevard, the site of Edgewood station was on the east side of Grand Avenue and is occupied by a miniature golf course today.
Station layout
The station has two high-level side platforms, each 12 cars long.
M | Mezzanine | Crossover between platforms |
P Platform level |
Platform A, side platform | |
Track 1 | ← Ronkonkoma Branch toward Grand Central Madison or Penn Station (Wyandanch) | |
Track 2 | Ronkonkoma Branch toward Ronkonkoma (Brentwood) → | |
Platform B, side platform | ||
Ground level | Entrance/exit and parking |
Gallery
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Penn Station-bound train arriving.
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Penn Station-bound train departing.
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Westbound view from the Executive Drive railroad crossing.
References
- ^ Long Island Rail Road (May 14, 2012). "TIMETABLE No. 4" (PDF). p. III. Retrieved August 4, 2022.
- ^ Average weekday, 2006 LIRR Origin and Destination Study
- ^ "American Railroad Journal, and General Advertiser for Railroads, Canals ..." google.com. 1845.
- ^ Valenti, John (April 25, 2007). "Pine Aire station fire disrupts LIRR service". Newsday.
- ^ Huneke, Arthur John (April 11, 2003). "EAST OF EDGEWOOD". Arrt's Arrchives. Archived from the original on February 16, 2015.
- ^ Historic Map Works LLC. "Historic Map: Plate 005, Atlas: Suffolk County 1941 Western Half, New York - Historic Map Works, Residential Genealogy ™". historicmapworks.com.
- ^ Huneke, Arthur John (January 4, 2019). "PILGRIM STATE HOSPITAL". Arrt's Arrchives. Archived from the original on December 8, 2021. Retrieved March 28, 2023.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 12, 2022.
- ^ Huneke, Arthur John (January 6, 2015). "EDGEWOOD". Arrt's Arrchives. Archived from the original on December 10, 2021.
- ^ "Edgewood State Hospital Maps". edgewoodhospital.com. Archived from the original on June 28, 2012.