Islip | |||||||||||||
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 Islip station house as seen from the eastbound platform | |||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||
| Location | Islip Avenue (NY 111) & Moffitt Boulevard Islip,New York | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°44′10″N73°12′32″W / 40.736°N 73.209°W /40.736; -73.209 | ||||||||||||
| Owned by | Long Island Rail Road | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2side platforms | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||||
| Parking | Yes (free) | ||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Yes (bike rack) | ||||||||||||
| Accessible | yes | ||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 10 | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| Opened | 1868 (SSRRLI) | ||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1881, 1963, 1997 | ||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||
| 2012—2014 | 1,028[1] | ||||||||||||
| Rank | 76 of125 | ||||||||||||
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Islip is a station on theMontauk Branch of theLong Island Rail Road, offNY 111 (Islip Avenue) and Nassau Avenue, north ofSuffolk CR 50 (Union Boulevard), and south of Moffitt Boulevard inIslip, New York.
Islip station was originally built as aSouth Side Railroad of Long Island depot in 1868. A second depot was built in 1881, then razed in 1963. A third depot was built the same year, and remodeled in 1997.[2] At the west end of the platforms is an at-grade pedestrian crossing with signals but no gates. This crossing is in line with where Williams Avenue used to cross the tracks and intersect with Nassau Avenue. Though the station is neither listed under theNational Register of Historic Places nor theNew York State Register of Historic Places, it is considered a landmark by the Historical Society of Islip Hamlet.
West of Islip Station, theSouth Side Railroad of Long Island (SSRRLI), once had an additional station calledIslip Centre station. LIRR timetables from 1869 indicate it was at or near Brentwood Road,[3] 1.5 miles east of the Bay Shore station.[4] The station may have been used for members of the Olympic Boat Club. Islip Centre Station was abandoned around May 1870.[5]
The station has two offset high-level side platforms each four cars long. The Montauk Branch has two tracks here, though a third abandoned track runs parallel, stopping just a few feet from the north platform. Passengers are able to cross between the tracks using a paved crossing area on the west end of the station. Warning lights and an audible signal alert passengers that a train is nearby, but no gates are present at the crossing area. Passengers cross on the east side using the sidewalk on Islip Avenue.[citation needed]
Ticket machines are located on the north side of the station building.
Platform A,side platform | |
| Track1 | ← Montauk Branch towardLong Island City orPenn Station(Bay Shore) |
| Track2 | Montauk Branch towardPatchogue,Speonk, orMontauk(Great River) → |
| 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 ... Islip
