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Roslyn Station (LIRR)
Roslyn is a train station, station on the Oyster Bay Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located at Lincoln & Railroad Avenues, west of Roslyn Road, Roslyn Road (CR 7) and south of Warner Avenue, in Roslyn Heights, New York, Roslyn Heights, Nassau County, New York, Nassau County, New York (state), New York. History 19th century Roslyn station opened on January 23, 1865 by the Glen Cove Branch Rail Road – a subsidiary of the Long Island Rail Road, upon the completion of the line between Mineola station (LIRR), Mineola and Glen Head station, Glen Head. The land for the railroad station was donated by Samuel A. Warner, Samuel Adams Warner – a prominent architect and Roslyn resident for whom Warner Avenue is named. In 1882, the LIRR attempted to extend the former Flushing and North Side Railroad main line from the Great Neck (LIRR station), Great Neck station to the Roslyn station. This proposal dates back to an F&NS subsidiary, called the "Roslyn and Huntington Rail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roslyn Heights, New York
Roslyn Heights is a Hamlet (New York), hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the North Hempstead, New York, Town of North Hempstead in Nassau County, New York, Nassau County, on the North Shore (Long Island), North Shore of Long Island, in New York (state), New York, United States. It is considered part of the Greater Roslyn area, which is anchored by the Roslyn, New York, Incorporated Village of Roslyn. The population was 6,747 at the time of the 2020 census. History Roslyn Heights saw a major economic boom in the 1860s, shortly after the Long Island Rail Road's Oyster Bay Branch was built through and opened in the area. Starting in 1892, a corporation was started to develop the northwestern section of the hamlet. Members of this development corporation included lawyers, bankers, and developers. This development, which was named Roslyn Highlands, was largely unsuccessful. Eventually, the western portion of the proposed Roslyn Highlands development was developed using the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newsday
''Newsday'' is a daily newspaper in the United States primarily serving Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island, although it is also sold throughout the New York metropolitan area. The slogan of the newspaper is "Newsday, Your Eye on LI", and formerly it was "Newsday, the Long Island Newspaper". The newspaper's headquarters are located in Melville, New York. Since its founding in 1940, ''Newsday'' has won 19 Pulitzer Prizes. Historically, it penetrated the New York City market. As of 2023, ''Newsday'' is the eighth-largest circulation newspaper in the United States with a print circulation of 86,850. History 20th century Founded by Alicia Patterson and her husband, Harry Guggenheim, the first edition of ''Newsday'' was September 3, 1940, published from Hempstead. Until undergoing a major redesign in the 1970s, ''Newsday'' copied the '' Daily News'' format of short stories and numerous pictures. Patterson was fired as a writer at her father's ''Daily News'' in her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NYU Langone Hospital – Long Island
NYU Langone Hospital – Long Island is a hospital in Mineola, New York, on Long Island. It is affiliated with NYU Langone Health and was founded in 1896 as Nassau Hospital and was later renamed to Winthrop-University Hospital. Activities It is ranked by '' U.S. News & World Report'' as one of the top-10 New York metropolitan area hospitals. It is currently a 591-bed academic medical center which is an ACS verified Level 1 Trauma Center and certified Comprehensive stroke center. The hospital features more than 75 divisions of specialty care, offering inpatient and outpatient programs and services to address every stage of life. NYU Langone Hospital – Long Island also has a Research Institute that conducts robust research and studies that are helping to shape the future of medicine. The hospital, with ties to New York University, blends the progressive philosophy and advances of a teaching and research institution with a personal approach to patient care that is the corner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orlando, Florida
Orlando ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Orange County, Florida, United States. The city proper had a population of 307,573 at the 2020 census, making it the fourth-most populous city in Florida behind Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville, Miami, and Tampa, Florida, Tampa and the state's most populous inland city. Part of Central Florida, it is the center of the Greater Orlando, Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 2.67 million in 2020. It is the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the Southern United States and the third-largest metropolitan area in Florida behind Miami metropolitan area, Miami and Tampa Bay area, Tampa Bay. Orlando is one of the most-visited cities in the world primarily due to tourism, major events, and convention traffic. It is the fourth-most visited city in the U.S. after New York City, Miami, and Los Angeles, with over 3.5 million visitors as of 2023. Orlando International Airport is the List of the busiest airports in the United Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
N23 (Long Island Bus)
The following bus routes are operated in Nassau County, New York. Most of these routes are operated under Nassau Inter-County Express (NICE), formerly MTA Long Island Bus, except in Greater Long Beach, where that city operates its own bus service through Long Beach Bus. These tables give details for the routes that service Nassau County primarily. For details on routes that run into Nassau County but do not service it primarily, see: *List of bus routes in Queens: Q2, Q5, Q36, Q46, Q85, Q110, Q111, Q113, Q114 *List of express bus routes in New York City: QM6, QM36 Routes Some of routes listed below are the direct descendants of streetcar lines (see List of streetcar lines on Long Island and in Queens), and most were privately operated prior to 1973. Nassau Inter-County Express NICE routes are designated on the buses, bus stop signs, and timetables with a lowercase "n". Previously, the routes were designated with an uppercase "N", akin to routes in larger bus systems surroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York & North Shore Traction Company
The North Shore Bus Company operated public buses in Queens, New York City. It was established in 1920 as the successor to the New York and North Shore Traction Company trolley system, and operated until 1947 when it went bankrupt, and its operations were taken over by the New York City Board of Transportation. History Origin: New York and North Shore Traction Company The company was established in 1902 as a trolley company called the Mineola, Roslyn & Port Washington Traction Company, but as it grew into Queens it was renamed in 1907 as the " New York and North Shore Traction Company." It had a line from Flushing, Queens to Roslyn in Nassau County named the North Shore Line, as well as another from Flushing to Whitestone–14th Avenue Station on the Whitestone Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, better known as the Whitestone Line. Within Nassau County, it had lines from Port Washington to Mineola which was known as the Port Washington Line, and from Mineola to Hicksv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oyster Bay Station
Oyster Bay is the terminus on the Oyster Bay Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. The station is located off Shore Avenue between Maxwell and Larabee Avenues. It has a sheltered concrete elevated platform that stands in the shadows of the original station, which was accessible from the ends of Maxwell, Audrey, and Hamilton Avenues. Both stations exist along the south side of Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park. No bus services are available for the station, however local taxicabs do stop. Overview The original Oyster Bay station opened on June 24, 1889 and remodeled in 1902. At one point there were plans to extend the line east towards the Port Jefferson Branch. There was also a large pier built to facilitate the loading of passenger cars onto a short-lived ferry to Wilson's Point in South Norwalk, Connecticut that is now owned by the Flowers Oyster Company. The former Oyster Bay Station and the Oyster Bay Long Island Rail Road Turntable were both listed separately on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Williston Station
East Williston is the first station along the Oyster Bay Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, located at Hillside Avenue (NY 25B) and Pennsylvania Avenue on the border between the Incorporated Villages of East Williston and Williston Park, in Nassau County, New York. Electric third rail territory ends just north of the East Williston station, but as of 2024, all service is provided by diesel bi-level trains. History East Williston's station house opened in February 1880 by the Glen Cove Branch Rail Road. It originally contained a freight house and wooden platform shelters that were closed during the mid-20th century. The third rail was installed from Mineola to East Williston in June 1934; there were originally plans to electrify the entire Oyster Bay Branch – however, this did not occur. East Williston was also a more convenient and less busy location for turning back electric trains to Mineola – a service since made redundant by subsequent extensions of the electrif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glen Cove Station
Glen Cove is a train station, 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 Glen Cove, New York, City of Glen Cove, Nassau County, New York, Nassau County, New York (state), New York. No bus services are available at the Glen Cove station (unlike at the nearby Glen Street (LIRR station), 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 (Long Island), Gold Coast" millionaires. These wealthy locals, such as the Charles Pratt and J.P. Morgan, who were looking for a more dignified station to disembark at than Glen Street station, the existing station on Glen Street. The picturesque station has been featured in several movies, including Sabrina (1954 film), Sabrina, Hello Again (1987 film), Hello Again, and several commercials. Station layout This station has two high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albertson Station
Albertson is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Oyster Bay Branch. The station is on the north side of I.U. Willets Road at Albertson Avenue on the Albertson–Roslyn Heights border, in Nassau County, New York. The parking lot is located on the south side of I.U. Willets Road. The station is located adjacent to the Clark Botanic Garden. History The station was originally opened with name Albertson's and originally opened as a milk station in March 1874 and opened as a flag stop in June 1875 by the Glen Cove Branch Rail Road. The station was renamed as Albertson in 1903. The station had a depot building built in 1911, and it lasted until 1954, when it was razed. On November 30, 1943, a 53-year-old woman driving a Ford sedan was killed when a train collided with her vehicle as she was driving across the I.U. Willets Road grade crossing, adjacent to the Albertson station. At the time of the incident, the grade crossing was not equipped with gates. In 1960, the LIRR pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Washington (LIRR Station)
Port Washington is the terminus of the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch in Port Washington, New York. The station is located on Main Street, between Haven Avenue and South Bayles Avenue, just west of Port Washington Boulevard (NY 101), and is 19.9 miles (32 km) from Pennsylvania Station in Midtown Manhattan. A pedestrian bridge exists between the platforms, and is in line with Franklin Avenue, ending at Haven Avenue. History The construction of a train station in Port Washington was first recommended to Austin Corbin by a group of Port Washington residents in 1895, after a failed attempt to extend the existing North Side Division between Great Neck and Roslyn in 1882. Efforts to bring rail service to the community actually date back to the days of the Flushing and North Side Railroad which established an unbuilt subsidiary called the "North Shore and Port Washington Railroad" that was dissolved once the F&NS was consolidated into the Flushing, North Shor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Washington Branch
The Port Washington Branch is an electrified, mostly double-tracked rail line and service owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York. It branches north from the Main Line at the former Winfield Junction station, just east of the Woodside station in the New York City borough of Queens, and runs roughly parallel to Northern Boulevard past Mets-Willets Point (Citi Field), Flushing, Murray Hill, Broadway, Auburndale, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck, and then crosses into Nassau County for stops in Great Neck, Manhasset, and Plandome before terminating at Port Washington. The Port Washington Branch is the only LIRR branch to not serve Jamaica – a major LIRR transportation hub – as it branches off the Main Line at Winfield Junction, several miles northwest of Jamaica. Thus, passengers seeking to switch to other LIRR services without going into Manhattan must instead transfer at Woodside station. Route description The line h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
