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Greenvale station

Coordinates: 40°48′56″N 73°37′37″W / 40.815547°N 73.626916°W / 40.815547; -73.626916
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Greenvale
The station at Greenvale, facing Glen Head-bound on the Oyster Bay-bound platform in June 2012.
General information
LocationBetween Glen Cove Avenue & Plaza Road north of Helen Street
Greenvale, NY
Coordinates40°48′56″N 73°37′37″W / 40.815547°N 73.626916°W / 40.815547; -73.626916
Owned byLong Island Rail Road
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsLocal Transit Nassau Inter-County Express: n27
Construction
ParkingYes; Village of Roslyn Harbor Permits and Metered Parking
AccessibleYes
Other information
Fare zone7
History
Opened1866 (freight only)
1875, 1880s (passenger service)
Previous namesWeek's
Passengers
2006262[1]
Services
Preceding station Long Island Rail Road Following station
Roslyn Oyster Bay Branch Glen Head
toward Oyster Bay
Former services
North Roslyn   Oyster Bay Branch   Glen Head

Greenvale is a station along the Oyster Bay Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. The station is officially located off Helen Street, between Glen Cove Avenue and Glen Cove Road, Greenvale, New York.

History

Greenvale station was originally established by the Glen Cove Branch Rail Road on July 21, 1866, as "Week's station," a freight-only station primarily used for delivering milk. Passengers were briefly allowed at the station in 1875, and then again sometime during the 1880s.[2][3] At some point, the station was renamed "Greenvale." The passenger station has never existed as anything else other than a sheltered platform. On May 17, 1891, it was demolished by a locomotive that collided with a horse whose hoof was stuck in the switching apparatus, resulting in both the death of the horse and two crew members. Eventually the station was replaced.[4] New shelters were built on both sides of the tracks in 2000 on high-level platforms designed to accommodate the disabled, as well as future electrified trains.

Station layout

This station has two high-level side platforms, each four cars long.

Platform A, side platform Disabled access
Track 1      Oyster Bay Branch toward Jamaica, Long Island City, or Penn Station (Roslyn)
Track 2      Oyster Bay Branch toward Oyster Bay (Glen Head)
Platform B, side platform Disabled access

References