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St. James Long Island Rail Road station |
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| Address | Lake Avenue & Railroad Avenue St. James, New York |
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| Connections | Lindy's Taxi NYS Bike Route 25 |
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| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Parking | Yes; Free and Town of Smithtown permits | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1873[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1974, 1997 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Owned by | MTA / LIRR | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2006) | 588[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Saint James is a historic station on the Port Jefferson Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. The station is located on Lake Avenue and Railroad Avenue, just south of New York State Route 25A in St. James, Sufffolk County, New York. The LIRR gives the address as being at Lake Avenue and Second Street, however Second Street is across the tracks and terminates at Lake Avenue on the opposite side of a parking lot for a King Kullen shopping center.
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Built in 1873 by Calvin L'Hommedieu for the Smithtown and Port Jefferson Railroad in the northern part of the Town of Smithtown, it remains the second-oldest existing station-house of the Long Island Rail Road. When the Flowerfield station to the east was abandoned in 1958, the commuters who previously used that depot at the Gyrodyne Company of America were redirected to the St. James and Stony Brook, New York depots. The station is located within the Saint James District, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[4]
No buses stop at the station. However, local suburban taxicab service is available, and the station serves as a stop along New York State Bicycle Route 25.[5] The only modifications to the depot in recent years have been to make the station more accessible to the disabled.
This station has one 12-car-long high-level side platform, north of the track. The Port Jefferson Branch has one track at this location.
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