Merillon Avenue (LIRR station)

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Merillon Avenue
Station statistics
Address	Nassau Boulevard & Merillon Avenue Mineola, NY
Lines	Oyster Bay Branch Ronkonkoma Branch Port Jefferson Branch
Connections	All-Island Transportation
Platforms	2
Tracks	2
Parking	Yes
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Other information
Opened	1912
Rebuilt	1958
Accessible
Owned by	MTA
Fare zone	4
Formerly	Clowesville

Merillon Avenue is a train station on the Main Line (Port Jefferson Branch service) of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located at Nassau Boulevard and Merillon Avenue in Garden City. The station is wheelchair accessible with two side platforms and a crossunder at Nassau Boulevard.

The Merillon Avenue station is known as being the final stop on the 5:33 train from Penn Station to Hicksville on December 7, 1993, when Colin Ferguson opened gunfire at passengers who were white. Six people died and 19 others were wounded. Carolyn McCarthy, whose husband was killed and her son seriously injured in the tragedy, pressed for tougher gun control laws and was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1996. There is a memorial wreath at the station. See Long Island Rail Road massacre.

In the mid-19th century the station was known as Clowesville, later as Garden City. It was the closest LIRR station to the old Queens County courthouse off Jericho Turnpike.

[edit] External links

• LIRR station information for Merillon Avenue
• LIRR schedule for Merillon Avenue
• New Hyde Park & Merillon Avenue Stations (Arrt's Arrchives)

• Merillon Avenue (LIRR station) is at coordinates 40°44′07″N 73°39′45″W / 40.735164, -73.662523 (Merillon Avenue (LIRR station))Coordinates: 40°44′07″N 73°39′45″W / 40.735164, -73.662523 (Merillon Avenue (LIRR station))

Preceding station		Long Island Rail Road		Following station
New Hyde Park toward New York terminals		Main Line (Port Jefferson Branch) (also Oyster Bay Branch and Ronkonkoma Branch)		Mineola toward Greenport, Oyster Bay, or Port Jefferson