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| Address | Tulip Avenue & Atlantic Avenue Floral Park, NY |
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Main Line (limited service): |
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| Connections | Taxi service | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms 1 island platform |
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| Tracks | 4 | |||||||||||||||
| Parking | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Yes | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1878 | |||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1909, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| Electrified | May 26, 1908 750V (DC) third rail |
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| Owned by | MTA | |||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 4 | |||||||||||||||
| Formerly | Stewart Junction (1878-1879) Hinsdale (1879-1887) East Hinsdale (1887-1890) |
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| Passengers (2006) | 2,991[1] | |||||||||||||||
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Floral Park is a Long Island Rail Road train station in Floral Park, New York at Tulip and Atlantic Avenues, on the Main Line and Hempstead Branch just west of their split. Most of its trains run to or from Hempstead, but a few Port Jefferson Branch trains stop on weekday mornings.
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The first Floral Park station was built between October and November 1878 as "Stewart Junction," for the junction between the LIRR Main Line and the Central Railroad of Long Island built by Alexander Turney Stewart. Five years earlier the CRRLI had bridged the LIRR, and the station served as a connection between both lines. Connecting tracks were available at the southwest corner of the bridge at the station, and on the northwest corner of the bridge west of the station. It was renamed "Hinsdale" in 1879 with the closing of the CRRLI depot of the same name along the Creedmoor Branch, then renamed "East Hinsdale" in 1887. That same year, the station gained a control tower known as "Tower #47." Apparently due to the presence of the florist John Lewis Childs, the station was renamed "Floral Park" by 1890.[2] Tower #47 was replaced with the "FK Tower" in 1904, the station itself was razed in 1909, and a second station was rebuilt and relocated the same year in July.[3] In 1924, the LIRR replaced the FK Tower with the Park Tower, and rebuilt it again in 1946.[4] The third and current elevated structure was built in 1960, as the second one was razed on October 20 of that same year.
This station has three high-level platforms. The northern one, Platform A, is an eight-car long side platform next to Track 1 of the Main Line that is generally used by westbound or New York City-bound trains. The central one, Platform B, is a 10-car long island platform next to Track 2 of the Main Line and Track 1 of the Hempstead Branch. This platform is generally used by eastbound Main Line trains or westbound or New York City-bound Hempstead Branch trains. The southern one, Platform C, is a 10-car long side platform next to Track 2 of the Hempstead Branch and generally used by eastbound or Hempstead-bound trains. All four tracks are served by the platforms.
On weekday mornings, as of September 2006, three eastbound trains stop at Platform B, and one westbound train stops at Platform A. These services are intended to supplement service to and from the west and are not necessarily intended for Port Jefferson Branch customers. The station is not wheelchair accessible.