Merillon Avenue (LIRR station)

Merillon Avenue (LIRR station)
Merillon Avenue
Merillon Avenue Station from Eastbound Platform.JPG
Merillon Avenue Station as seen from the eastbound platform.
Station statistics
Address Nassau Boulevard & Merillon Avenue
Garden City, NY
Coordinates 40°44′07″N 73°39′45″W / 40.735164°N 73.662523°W / 40.735164; -73.662523Coordinates: 40°44′07″N 73°39′45″W / 40.735164°N 73.662523°W / 40.735164; -73.662523
Lines
Connections All-Island Transportation
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Parking Yes
Bicycle facilities Yes
Other information
Opened 1912
Rebuilt 1958
Electrified October 1926
750V (DC) third rail
Accessible Handicapped/disabled access
Owned by MTA
Fare zone 4
Formerly Clowesville(1837-1874)
Garden City(1874-1876)
Traffic
Passengers (2006) 1,533[1]
Services
Preceding station   LIRR   Following station
Main Line
(Port Jefferson Branch)
(also Oyster Bay Branch
and Ronkonkoma Branch)

Merillon Avenue is a train station on the Main Line (Port Jefferson Branch service) of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located at Nassau Boulevard and Merillon Avenue in Garden City. The station is wheelchair accessible with two side platforms and a crossunder at Nassau Boulevard.

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History

Merillon Avenue Station was established in 1911 near the former Clowesville Station, which was established in June 1837 by the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad. It was the closest LIRR station to the old Queens County courthouse (Nassau County became a separate county in 1899, splitting off from Queens County) off Jericho Turnpike. By 1845 it was used only when courts were in session. From 1874-1876, the station was named "Garden City", despite the fact that Alexander Turney Stewart had already established a Garden City Station along the Central Railroad of Long Island in 1872. The previous site of the courthouse was moved in 1877 and the station fell by the wayside,[2] although some trains continued to stop there as late as June 1897.[3] Though re-established as a station in 1911, the station house itself was not built until 1912. It was rebuilt in 1958 with a smaller structure and an 11'6" bridge under the tracks for Nassau Boulevard.

LIRR massacre

The Merillon Avenue station was the final stop on the 5:33 train from Penn Station to Hicksville on December 7, 1993, when Colin Ferguson opened gunfire at passengers who were White or Asian. Six people died and 19 others were wounded. Carolyn McCarthy, whose husband was killed and whose son was seriously injured in the tragedy, pressed for tougher gun control laws and was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1996. There are often memorial wreaths on the platform at the head of the Eastbound tracks of the station on the anniversaries of the incident.

Platforms and tracks

This station has two high-level side platforms, each the length of ten railway cars. The northern platform, next to Track 1, is generally used by westbound or New York City-bound trains. The southern platform, next to Track 2, is generally used by eastbound trains. The Main Line has two tracks.

References

  1. ^ Average weekday, 2006 LIRR Origin and Destination Study
  2. ^ Clowesville Station (Arrt's Arrchives)
  3. ^ LIRR station history

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