Lawrence | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Parking lot view of Lawrence station. Note the stenciled glass above one of the doorways. | ||||||||||||||||||
| General information | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Lawrence Avenue and Bayview Avenue (2 blocks west of Central Avenue) Lawrence, New York | |||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°36′56″N73°44′10″W / 40.615638°N 73.736050°W /40.615638; -73.736050 | |||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Long Island Rail Road | |||||||||||||||||
| Line | Far Rockaway Branch | |||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2side platforms | |||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Connections |  MTA Bus:Q114Nassau Inter-County Express:n31,n31x,n32 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Parking | Yes | |||||||||||||||||
| Accessible | yes | |||||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||||
| Opened | July 29, 1869 (SSRRLI)[2] | |||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1905 | |||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | December 11, 1905 750V (DC)third rail | |||||||||||||||||
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| 2006 | 975[1] | |||||||||||||||||
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Lawrence is astation on theLong Island Rail Road'sFar Rockaway Branch in theVillage of Lawrence, inNassau County,New York,United States.
The station is officially located at Lawrence Avenue and Bayview Avenue, two blocks west of Central Avenue. However, the actual location is two blocks north of Central Avenue, and Bayview Avenue is on the opposite side of the tracks. Lawrence station is 21.8 miles (35.1 km) fromPenn Station inMidtown Manhattan.
Lawrence station was originally built by theSouth Side Railroad of Long Island on July 29, 1869, but never had a station building until June 29, 1872. The station was rebuilt in 1905, the same year that the line was electrified, and the original station house was moved to a private location on July 31, 1906.
This station has two high-levelside platforms, each 10 cars long.
