Owned by MTA Tracks 2 Rebuilt 1898 | Line(s) Hempstead Branch Parking Yes Platforms in use 2 | |
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Location Seventh Street
Garden City, New York Connections Nassau Inter-County Express: n40/n41 Address 7th St, Garden City, NY 11530, USA Owner Metropolitan Transportation Authority Connection Nassau Inter-County Express Similar Country Life Press, Stewart Manor, Rockville Centre, Nassau Boulevard, Lawrence | ||
Garden City is one of five stations of the Long Island Rail Road that serves the Village of Garden City, New York. It is on the Hempstead Branch and is located at Seventh Street between Hilton and Cathedral Avenues, directly across the street from the Garden City Hotel. It is one of the few Long Island Rail Road stations with two station houses.
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History
Garden City Station was originally built in 1872 by the Central Railroad of Long Island, which was built by Alexander Turney Stewart to bring visitors to the Garden City Hotel. The original station was a typical one-story Victorian structure with a second story over the front door, and a back "porch" over high platforms. It also included a separate freight house. The CRRLI merged with the Flushing and North Side Railroad in 1874 to form the Flushing, North Shore and Central Railroad, only to be acquired by the Long Island Rail Road in 1876. Prior to their acquisition of the FNS&C, the LIRR gave the name "Garden City Station" to Clowesville station along the main line. The LIRR rebuilt it in 1898, and the new version of the station had eyebrow porch windows along the roof, and also had trolley connections to Mineola-Freeport branch of the New York and Long Island Traction Company. A pedestrian tunnel was added in 1915, which included an additional trolley along the Central Branch, and a removal of the eyebrow porch windows on the roof of the station house before 1918. High-level platforms were added sometime during the 1970s and a major restoration project took place in the early-21st Century.
Besides standing in the shadow of the Garden City Hotel, Garden City station is also located next to the Garden City Public Library. The station has residential parking on both sides of the tracks on 6th and 7th Streets, as well as unrestricted free parking at nearby Stewart Avenue between Hilton & Franklin Avenues, and free parking during off-peak hours along 6th Street near Cathedral Avenue.
Station layout
The station has two high-level side platforms, each 10 cars long.