Country Life Press station
Country Life Press | |||||||||||||
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 The station at Country Life Press, facing Hempstead-bound in June 2012 | |||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||
| Location | St. James Street South, between Chestnut Street & Damson Street Garden City, New York, | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°43′16″N 73°37′46″W / 40.721234°N 73.629405°WCoordinates: 40°43′16″N 73°37′46″W / 40.721234°N 73.629405°W | ||||||||||||
| Owned by | Long Island Rail Road | ||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Hempstead Branch | ||||||||||||
| Distance | 19.0 mi (30.6 km) from Long Island City[1] | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||||
| Parking | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 4 | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| Opened | 1911 | ||||||||||||
| Electrified | May 26, 1908[2] 750 V (DC) third rail | ||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||
| 2006 | 1,236[3] | ||||||||||||
| Services | |||||||||||||
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Country Life Press is one of five stations of the Long Island Rail Road in the village of Garden City, New York. It serves the Hempstead Branch and is located on Damson Street and St. James Street South in Garden City.
History
The station was originally opened in 1911 for the sole purpose of serving the book publisher Doubleday, Page & Company, which had moved in 1910 from Manhattan to Garden City, where co-founder and vice-president Walter Hines Page lived. It is named for the publisher's "Country Life Press" that was located across the tracks.[4] Country Life Press station has some former rights-of-way that led to the West Hempstead and the Oyster Bay Branches.[5] It also included the remnants of the Central Branch of the Long Island Rail Road that terminated near Nassau Coliseum.
Station layout
The station has one 10-car-long side platform on the east side of the single track.
Image gallery
- Country Life Press station
View of the tracks from the south end of the platform.
The station house along the north end of the low level platform.
References
- ^ Long Island Rail Road (May 14, 2012). "TIMETABLE No. 4" (PDF). p. VI. Retrieved August 6, 2022.
- ^ "Hurrah at Hempstead Over the Third Rail". The Brooklyn Times Union. May 20, 1908. p. 5. Retrieved September 21, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Average weekday, 2006 LIRR Origin and Destination Study
- ^ Hempstead Branch Stations (Unofficial LIRR history Website)
- ^ Mineola to West Hempstead Branch (Unofficial LIRR History Web Site)
External links
Media related to Country Life Press (LIRR station) at Wikimedia Commons
- Country Life Press – LIRR
- Country Life Press LIRR timetable
- Country Life Press Station History (Arrt's Arrchives)
- St. James Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Digitzed copies of books on the Country Life Press and books published by the facility at Internet Archive
- GARDEN Interlocking (The LIRR Today)
- Platform from Google Maps Street View
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