Long Beach | |||||||||||||
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 The restored 1909-built Long Beach Station | |||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||
| Location | Park Avenue & Park Place Long Beach, New York | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°35′22″N73°39′53″W / 40.589368°N 73.664854°W /40.589368; -73.664854 | ||||||||||||
| Owned by | Long Island Rail Road | ||||||||||||
| Line | Long Beach Branch | ||||||||||||
| Distance | 7.0 mi (11.3 km) fromValley Stream[1] | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2island platforms | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 10 | ||||||||||||
| Connections | Long Beach Bus: Pt. Lookout, East Loop, West Loop, Shopper's Special (West & East), Late Night Express Nassau Inter-County Express:n15,n33 | ||||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||||
| Parking | Yes[2] | ||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Yes[2] | ||||||||||||
| Accessible | yes | ||||||||||||
| Other information | |||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 7[4] | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| Opened | 1880 (NY&LB) | ||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | June 1909 (current site) 1988 | ||||||||||||
| Electrified | September 1910 750V (DC)third rail | ||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||
| 2012-14 | 9,397[3] | ||||||||||||
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TheLong Beach station is an intermodal center and theterminus of theLong Beach Branch of theLong Island Rail Road. It is located at Park Place and Park Avenue in the City ofLong Beach,New York, serving as the city's major transportation hub.
The MTA offers a package which includes train fare and admission to the beach.[5]
Long Beach station was originally built in 1880 by theNew York and Long Beach Railroad, however it was much closer to the Atlantic Ocean than the present station. The site was surrounded by Broadway, Penn Street, Edwards Boulevard and Riverside Boulevard, and served the grand Long Beach Hotel,[6] whichAustin Corbin claimed was the world's largest hotel.[7] It also included a clock tower on the station house, a water tower, and a gazebo. Additionally, it had a connection to theLong Beach Marine Railway, which servedLido Beach andPoint Lookout. The hotel burned down on July 27, 1907 in what was officially ruled as an electrical fire.[8]
Due to repeated storm damage to rails and other equipment, the LIRR petitioned theNew York State Public Service Commission to move the station 1000 feet north in January 1909, which was fully endorsed by the Estates of Long Beach who even offered to exchange land with the railroad.[9] That permission was granted in February of the same year. The present depot at Park Avenue was built in June 1909, and is larger than the previous station off the Atlantic Coast. It was designed byKenneth M. Murchison, who also designed the 1913-builtJamaica station[10] andHoboken Terminal. Over a year later, the station and the line were electrified. The station also included a baggage house and express freight office along track number 10.[11][12] Beginning in the early 1960s, store fronts began operating in front of the station along the street and continued to do so until the station was renovated in 1988. Another renovation in the early 2000s added a parking garage, bus depot, and platform bridge. The bus depot is on Centre Street adjacent to the station building, and the parking garage contains a section for bicycles.
Prior to the relocation, another station namedClub House station (not to be confused with theClub House station on theMontauk Branch inGreat River, New York) existed nearby at what is today Market Street and National Boulevard. Originally a signal stop built in April 1898, it contained a path leading to a club house on the coast ofReynolds Channel. The station was closed in 1909 when Long Beach Station was moved to the channel.
This station has two high-levelisland platforms. The east platform between Tracks 3 and 4 is 10 cars long. The west platform between Tracks 5 and 6 is eight cars long. There are 10 tracks total. The six tracks not next to the platforms (two to the east of the station and four to the west) are used for train storage. A low-level island platform between Tracks 7 and 8 is not in service, but contains mini-high platforms to access high-level trains.
Parking is available to the east and west of the station platforms, and is largely restricted to permits issued by the city of Long Beach.[2]
| Mezzanine level | Walkway between platforms, bus terminal, and parking garage | |
| Ground/platform level Exit/entrance and buses | Track1 | ←Storage track |
| Track2 | ←Storage track | |
| Track3 | ← Long Beach Branch towardGrand Central Madison,Atlantic Terminal, orPenn Station(Island Park) | |
Platform A,island platform | ||
| Track4 | ← Long Beach Branch towardGrand Central Madison,Atlantic Terminal, orPenn Station(Island Park) | |
| Track5 | ← Long Beach Branch towardGrand Central Madison,Atlantic Terminal, orPenn Station(Island Park) | |
| Platform B,island platform | ||
| Track6 | ← Long Beach Branch towardGrand Central Madison,Atlantic Terminal, orPenn Station(Island Park) | |
| Track7 | ←Storage track | |
| Island platform, not in service | ||
| Track8 | ←Storage track | |
| Track9 | ←Storage track | |
| Track10 | ←Storage track | |
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