Bay Shore is a major railroad station on the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), on Park Avenue and Oak Street north of Suffolk CR 50 (Union Boulevard) and west of Fourth Avenue, in Bay Shore, New York. Ferries to Fire Island board from a port south of the station.[3]
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 Looking west at Bay Shore station's two station houses, as seen in May of 2008. | |||||||||||||
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| Location | Railroad Plaza & Park Avenue Bay Shore, New York | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°43′30″N 73°15′11″W / 40.72505°N 73.253057°W | ||||||||||||
| Owned by | Long Island Rail Road | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Connections |  Suffolk County Transit: 2, 7, 11, 12 | ||||||||||||
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| Parking | Yes (free) | ||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 10 | ||||||||||||
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| Opened | May 20, 1868 (SSRRLI) | ||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1882, 1912 | ||||||||||||
| Previous names | Pentaquit (May–July 1868)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||
| 2012—2014 | 1,431[2] | ||||||||||||
| Rank | 63 of 125 | ||||||||||||
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History
editBay Shore station was built by the South Side Railroad of Long Island (SSRRLI) on May 20, 1868 as Penataquit station only to be renamed Bay Shore station in July 1868. It was replaced in 1882 and replaced again on July 17, 1912, in the style typical of stations such as Riverhead, Manhasset, Northport, and Mineola. The station also had a freight yard nearby.[4]
High-level platforms were added in 1984. The entrance to the station once[when?] 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]
Station layout
editThe 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 
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| Track 1 | ← Montauk Branch toward Long Island City or Penn Station (Babylon) |
| Track 2 | Montauk Branch toward Patchogue, Speonk, or Montauk (Islip) → |
| Platform B, side platform
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References
edit- ^ Vincent F. Seyfried, The Long Island Rail Road: A Comprehensive History, Part One: South Side R.R. of L.I., 1961
- ^ "2012-2014 LIRR Origin and Destination Report : Volume I: Travel Behavior Among All LIRR Passengers" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. August 23, 2016. PDF pp. 15, 198. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 17, 2019. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
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
- ^ "Life's a Beach on Long Island; The MTA LIRR is the "Greenest Way" to a Summer in Blue Ocean and White Sand Luxury". MTA. Retrieved March 20, 2013.
- ^ Bay Shore Freight Yard; 1978 (TrainsAreFun)
- ^ Morrison, David D.; Pakaluk, Valerie (2003). Long Island Rail Road Stations. Images of Rail. Chicago: Arcadia Publishing. p. 92. ISBN 0-7385-1180-3. Retrieved November 25, 2011.
- ^ LIRR Trackside Business Photos
External links
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Media related to Bay Shore (LIRR station) at Wikimedia Commons
