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
Location	Farmer's Boulevard and Bedell Street Locust Manor, Queens, New York
Coordinates	40.675022°N 73.764897°W / 40.675022; -73.764897
Owned by	Long Island Rail Road
Line(s)	Atlantic Branch
Distance	12.2 mi (19.6 km) from Atlantic Terminal[1]
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	NYCT Buses: Q3, Q85
Construction
Parking	No
Other information
Fare zone	3
History
Opened	June 1869 (SSRRLI)
Closed	June 1876[2] reopened soon after[citation needed]
Rebuilt	1876, 1959[3]
Electrified	October 16, 1905 750 V (DC) third rail
Previous names	Locust Avenue (1867–1929)[2]
Passengers
2012—2014	1,389[4]
Rank	64 of 125
Services
Preceding station Long Island Rail Road Following station Jamaica toward Jamaica, Atlantic Terminal or Penn Station Far Rockaway Branch weekdays Laurelton toward Far Rockaway Long Beach Branch weekends 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

On weekdays, the station is served by Far Rockaway Branch trains and Long Beach Branch trains bypass the station. This setup is reversed on weekends.

Station layout

This station has two high-level side platforms, each eight cars long.

This station has two exits; one exit, adjacent to the Rochdale Village power house, is on the northeast portion of the sprawling Rochdale housing co-operative. At that end of the station, the staircase leads to a Bedell Street (southbound) walkway in between two private Rochdale parking lots, and to a northbound walkway leading to residential 134th Avenue. The southern exit leads to Farmers Boulevard, between Garrett and Bedell streets. There are short canopies near the exits. Ticket machines are at a pedestrian tunnel on the north (Rochdale Village) end of the station, at the base of the eastbound (Long Island-bound) LIRR station staircase.

References

External links

• Media related to Locust Manor (LIRR station) at Wikimedia Commons
• Locust Manor – LIRR
• Locust Manor LIRR timetable
• Farmers Boulevard entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Platforms from Google Maps Street View