Greenport (LIRR station)

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Greenport

View of Old Greenport Station from the platform; July 2007

Station statistics

Address

Wiggins Street & Fourth Street
Greenport, NY

Lines

Greenport Branch

Connections

Suffolk County Transit: S92
North Ferry to Shelter Island
Long Island Railroad Museum
Island Cab Company

Platforms

1(Two Sides)

Tracks

Parking

Yes; free

Other information

Opened

1844

Rebuilt

1870, 1892

Accessible

Owned by

MTA

Fare zone

Greenport Railroad Station

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Map of the United States

Location:

Greenport, New York, USA

Built/Founded:

1892 or 1894

Added to NRHP:

July 20, 1989

NRHP Reference#:

#89000947

Greenport is the terminus of the Main Line (Greenport Branch) of the Long Island Rail Road It is located at Wiggins Street and 4th Street in the Village of Greenport, New York.

Greenport Station was originally built on July 29, 1844 as the terminus of the Main line of the LIRR, although some in the industry had hope of building an extension to a cross-sound bridge. On July 4, 1870 it was burned as part of Town festivities, and rebuilt in October later that year. Another station was built in its place in 1892 (although some sources claim it was in 1894), with a distinguished ticket office bay window that was removed in the 1920's. A train shed also existed behind the roundtable, which was replaced by a coal deposit area. Steam service existed until June 5, 1955, mail was carried at the station until 1965, and the train ran onto a dock until 1978. The station, its freight house, and roundtable were placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 20, 1989^[1]. A high-level platform leading to the old station and the Shelter Island Ferry was built between 2000 and 2001, as the case was with many other railroad stations on Long Island. The former freight house serves as the east end of the Railroad Museum of Long Island^[2], while the old station is now the East End Seaport Maritime Museum^[3].

1 Connections
2 Gallery
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Connections

Suffolk County Transit's S92 bus (Also to the Orient Point ferry to New London, Connecticut).
North Ferry to Shelter Island.
Long Island Railroad Museum
Local Taxi Service