Locust Manor station

Locust Manor is a station on the Long Island Rail Road'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 Midtown Manhattan. The stop serves the Rochdale, Queens section and its Rochdale Village apartment complex, and was also the stop for the racecourse on which Rochdale Village was erected, Jamaica Race Course. Today it contains fiberglass populuxe designed shelters on high-level platforms.

Locust Manor
Locust Manor Station in March 2015.
LocationFarmer's Boulevard and Bedell Street
Locust Manor, Queens, New York
Coordinates40.675022°N 73.764897°W / 40.675022; -73.764897
Owned byLong Island Rail Road
Line(s)Atlantic Branch
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Connections NYCT Buses: Q3, Q85
Construction
ParkingNo
Other information
Fare zone3
History
OpenedJune 1869 (SSRRLI)
ClosedJune 1876[1]
reopened soon after
Rebuilt1876, 1959[2]
ElectrifiedOctober 16, 1905
750 V (DC) third rail
Previous namesLocust Avenue (18671929)[1]
Passengers
201220141,389[3]
Rank64 of 125
Services
Preceding station LIRR Following station
Jamaica Far Rockaway Branch
weekdays
Laurelton
towards Far Rockaway
Long Beach Branch
weekends
Laurelton
towards Long Beach
Former services
Cedar Manor   Atlantic Branch   Higbie Avenue

On weekdays, the station is served by Far Rockaway Branch trains and Long Beach Branch trains bypass the station. This setup is reversed on weekends. One weekend overnight westbound Babylon Branch train also stops here.

Station layout

The populuxe-designed shelters as seen on a rainy late afternoon. These shelters have since been replaced.

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

This station has two exits; one exit, adjacent to the Rochdale Village 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.

P
Platform level
Platform A, side platform
Track 1      Far Rockaway Branch weekdays toward Jamaica, Atlantic Terminal, or Penn Station (Jamaica)
     Long Beach Branch weekends toward Jamaica, Atlantic Terminal, or Penn Station (Jamaica)
Track 2      Long Beach Branch weekends toward Long Beach (Laurelton)
     Far Rockaway Branch weekdays toward Far Rockaway (Laurelton)
Platform B, side platform,
G Ground level Entrance/exit, buses

References

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