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Centre Avenue (other)
Centre Avenue or Center Avenue may refer to: * Centre Avenue station, a Long Island Rail Road station in East Rockaway, New York, U.S. * Centre Avenue (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania, U.S. * Center Avenue Neighborhood Residential District, Bay City, Michigan, U.S. {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centre Avenue Station
Centre Avenue is one of two Long Island Rail Road stations located within the Incorporated Village of East Rockaway, in Nassau County, New York. The station is officially located at Forest Avenue, between Rocklyn & Centre Avenues – one block east of Atlantic Avenue. History The station was opened in 1898 by the New York and Long Beach Railroad and originally was known as South Lynbrook station until 1924. Centre Avenue station was originally located a block to the west and had a station house, but was moved east when high-level platforms were installed in the late 1960s in order to facilitate the new M1 railcars. Parts of the original platform are still visible along the trackside towards Lynbrook. Like all other Long Beach Branch stations east & south of Lynbrook, the Centre Avenue station saw temporary service reductions following Hurricane Sandy in 2012, due to the third rail infrastructure being damaged by saltwater from storm surge; diesel trains operated service on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centre Avenue (Pittsburgh)
Centre Avenue is a main thoroughfare in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. It is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania#Municipalities, second-most populous city in Pennsylvania (after Philadelphia) and the List of Un ..., United States. It stretches from Sixth Avenue near the Allegheny County Courthouse to East Liberty. Because of redevelopments to areas at both ends of Centre Avenue, the street is now somewhat shorter than it had been in 1970. At its downtown end, it now ends at Sixth Avenue. It lost about 500 feet (160 m) when the old Plaza building was razed and the "T" (subway) was built. At its other terminus, it was shortened by about 1000 feet (320 m) when East Liberty was re-designed and Penn Circle South produced. Charts produced prior to 1970 were drawn with Centre Avenue longer than its current length. Centre Avenue was extended in 2014, when the streets composing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |