Locust Manor station

Locust Manor is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Atlantic Branch in the Locust Manor neighborhood of Queens, New York City. The station is located at Farmers Boulevard and Bedell Street and is 14.0 miles (22.5 km) from Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan. The stop serves the Rochdale, Queens section and its Rochdale Village apartment complex, and was also the stop for the racecourse on which Rochdale Village was erected, Jamaica Race Course. Today it contains fiberglass populuxe designed shelters on high-level platforms.

Locust Manor
Locust Manor Station in March 2015.
General information
LocationFarmer's Boulevard and Bedell Street
Locust Manor, Queens, New York
Coordinates40.675022°N 73.764897°W / 40.675022; -73.764897
Owned byLong Island Rail Road
Line(s)Atlantic Branch
Distance12.2 mi (19.6 km) from Atlantic Terminal
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Connections NYCT Buses: Q3, Q85
Construction
ParkingNo
Other information
Fare zone3
History
OpenedJune 1869 (SSRRLI)
ClosedJune 1876
reopened soon after
Rebuilt1876, 1959
ElectrifiedOctober 16, 1905
750 V (DC) third rail
Previous namesLocust Avenue (1867–1929)
Passengers
2012—20141,389
Rank64 of 125
Services
Preceding station Long Island Rail Road Following station
Jamaica
toward Penn Station or Grand Central
 Far Rockaway Branch
weekdays
 Laurelton
toward Far Rockaway
Long Beach Branch Laurelton
toward Long Beach
Former services
Preceding station Long Island
Rail Road		 Following station
Cedar Manor
toward Flatbush Avenue
 Atlantic Division Higbie Avenue
toward Valley Stream
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