Bay Shore | |||||||||||||
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 Bay Shore station, looking towards the pedestrian bridge in 2012 | |||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||
| Location | Railroad Plaza & Park Avenue Bay Shore,New York | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°43′30″N73°15′11″W / 40.72505°N 73.253057°W /40.72505; -73.253057 | ||||||||||||
| Owned by | Long Island Rail Road | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2side platforms | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Connections |  Suffolk County Transit: 2, 7, 11, 12 | ||||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||||
| Parking | Yes (paid) | ||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Accessible | yes | ||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 10 | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| Opened | May 20, 1868 (SSRRLI) | ||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1882, 1912 | ||||||||||||
| Previous names | Pentaquit (May–July 1868)[2] | ||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||
| 2012—2014 | 1,431[1] | ||||||||||||
| Rank | 63 of125 | ||||||||||||
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Bay Shore (signed asBay Shore Fire Island Ferries) is a majorrailroad station on theMontauk Branch of theLong Island Rail Road, located on Park Avenue and Oak Street inBay Shore, New York, to the north ofUnion Boulevard (CR 50) and west of Fourth Avenue.Ferries toFire Island board from a nearby port located to the station's south.[3]
Bay Shore station was built by theSouth Side Railroad of Long Island (SSRRLI) on May 20, 1868 asPenataquit station only to be renamedBay Shore station in July 1868. It was replaced in 1882 and replaced again on July 17, 1912, in the style typical of stations such asRiverhead,Manhasset,Northport, andMineola. The station also had a freight yard nearby.[4]
High-level platforms were added in 1984. The entrance to the station previously had decorative pillars on the sides,[5] and a railroad hotel once existed behind the station plaza.[6] It is one of the few stations on the LIRR with two station buildings. The larger building was for the westbound platform and the smaller one was for the eastbound platform. An underground pedestrian tunnel once connected the two station houses until a pedestrian bridge was built in 2009. Both station houses still stand, but the smaller one previously used for the eastbound platform was taken over by the MTA. The new overpass brought a renovation project, replacing platform lighting and adding new platform waiting shelters.[citation needed]
The station has two high-level side platforms each 12 cars long. There are two large parking lots on each side of the tracks.[citation needed]
Platform A,side platform | |
| Track1 | ← Montauk Branch towardLong Island City orPenn Station(Babylon) |
| Track2 | Montauk Branch towardPatchogue,Speonk, orMontauk(Islip) → |
| Platform B,side platform | |
Data collection took place after the pretest determinations, starting in September 2012 and concluding in May 2014. .... 2012-2014 LIRR O[rigin and ]D[estination] COUNTS: WEEKDAY East/West Total By Station in Numerical Order ... Bay Shore
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