Locust Manor is a

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on the

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's Atlantic Branch in the Locust Manor neighborhood of Queens, New York City. The station is located at Farmers Boulevard and Bedell Street and is 14.0 miles (22.5 km) from Penn Station in

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. The stop serves the

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section and its Rochdale Village apartment complex, and was also the stop for the racecourse on which Rochdale Village was erected,

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. Today it contains fiberglass populuxe designed shelters on high-level platforms. On weekdays, the station is served by

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trains and Long Beach Branch trains bypass the station. This setup is reversed on weekends.

Station layout

This station has two high-level side platforms, each eight cars long. This station has two exits; one exit, adjacent to the

Rochdale Village Rochdale Village (pronounced ) is a housing cooperative and neighborhood in the southeastern corner of the New York City borough of Queens. Located in Community District 12, Rochdale Village is grouped as part of Greater Jamaica, corresponding t ...

power house, is on the northeast portion of the sprawling Rochdale housing co-operative. At that end of the station, the staircase leads to a Bedell Street (southbound) walkway in between two private Rochdale parking lots, and to a northbound walkway leading to residential 134th Avenue. The southern exit leads to Farmers Boulevard, between Garrett and Bedell streets. There are short canopies near the exits. Ticket machines are at a pedestrian tunnel on the north (Rochdale Village) end of the station, at the base of the eastbound (Long Island-bound) LIRR station staircase.

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Farmers Boulevard entrance from Google Maps Street ViewPlatforms from Google Maps Street View
{{LIRR stations navbox Long Island Rail Road stations in New York City Railway stations in Queens, New York Railway stations in the United States opened in 1869 1869 establishments in New York (state)