A very short post today. It looks as if I am ready to embark on another Forgotten New York photo series, Long Island RR station interiors. Usually they are well-maintained and kept clean, and it’s easy to do that because they are open very sparingly, only during the week (closed on weekends), and hours average from 6 AM to about 2 PM, though the one in Little Neck is open a little later.
The Bayside stationhouse is interesting because it’s actually a house with rooms on the second floor that probably served as home to a full time stationmaster and perhaps his family. It was built before the RR was placed in an open cut in the 1920s. Naturally there’s no access upstairs, though. On the Port Washington branch, Broadway Flushing, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck, Great Neck, Manhasset, Plandome and Port Washington all have interior spaces, and of course there are dozens of other stationhouses all over the island. I’ll probably limit myself to the ones in NYC and western Nassau.
If the Bayside and Little Neck stations are guides, there are vintage photos of the stations from decades ago, so this could be a fun project.
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4/8/25
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I’d be interested in seeing the Country Life Press station house that has been closed for decades.
I lived at 195th St at 56th Ave, and generally used Aurburndale Station. It may have been the train schedule, but I had a few opportunities to board from Bayside, and it was always a treat.
There are photos in the Port Washington station (which is original to the 1898 extension from Great Neck), that were provided by David Morrison. It is likely that photos in Bayside wee also provided by him. He is a retired LIRR Branch Line Manager and author of a host of books on the Rail Road. He often provides presentations to historical societies and community groups.
I lived near the Gibson (Valley Stream) station in the early 70s. There was an upstairs apartment where the stationmaster lived. He was a nice guy. All the kids thought it would be SO cool to live in a train station!