Glen_Cove_(LIRR_station)

Glen Cove station

Glen Cove station

Long Island Rail Road station in Nassau County, New York

Glen Cove is a station along the Oyster Bay Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located between Pearsall Avenue and Norfolk Lane north of Duck Pond Road, in the City of Glen Cove, Nassau County, New York.

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No bus access is available at the Glen Cove station (unlike at the nearby Glen Street station). However, local taxicabs do stop here.

History

The Glen Cove station, (née Nassau), was built in 1895, at the behest of the "Gold Coast" millionaires. These wealthy locals, such as the Pratts and J.P. Morgan, who were looking for a more dignified station to disembark at than the existing station on Glen Street.[4][5] The picturesque station has been featured in several movies, including Sabrina, Hello Again, and several commercials.[5][6]

Station layout

This station has two high-level side platforms, each four cars long.

Platform A, side platform Disabled access
Track 1 ←      Oyster Bay Branch toward Long Island City or Penn Station (Glen Street)
Track 2 ←      Oyster Bay Branch toward Oyster Bay (Locust Valley) →
Platform B, side platform Disabled access

References

  1. [1]
    Long Island Rail Road (May 14, 2012). "TIMETABLE No. 4" (PDF). p. VI. Retrieved August 7, 2022.
  2. [2]
    "Glen Cove Station Name to be Changed". The Daily Star. June 12, 1911. p. 1. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
  3. [3]
    Average weekday, 2006 LIRR Origin and Destination Study
  4. [4]
    Seyfried, Vincent. "The Long Island Rail Road: The age of expansion, 1863-1880". p. 203. Archived from the original on December 20, 2014.
  5. [5]
    Morrison, David D. (March 5, 2018). Long Island Rail Road: Oyster Bay Branch. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9781467128544.
  6. [6]
    Glen Cove: 1954 movie "Sabrina" starring Audrey Hepburn with her dog; David Archive: Dave Morrison (TrainsAreFun)

Media related to Glen Cove (LIRR station) at Wikimedia Commons

1907 post card of Glen Cove station. Note the freight house southwest of the main station house.
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