Do you ride on the Ronkonkoma Branch? Approximately 50,000 customers ride the Ronkonkoma Branch each weekday and, if you’re one of them, chances are you’ve passed by or through one of our recently renovated stations at Brentwood, Deer Park, or Farmingdale. (Fun fact: Farmingdale was built back in 1890, and…
As part of the new MTA Live Media Program, four digital communication screens have been installed, as a test, in an LIRR M7 car. Live screens have been installed in many LIRR stations, as well as in subway stations and in Grand Central Terminal. Through this program, more than 53,000…
Whether by seeing or feeling, passengers know they’re at the edge of a train platform thanks to these ubiquitous bumpy yellow tiles. Invented by Seiichi Miyake, the first tactile warning strips we installed in Okayama, Japan on March 18, 1967 next to a school for the blind. To this day…
If you’re waiting for a train – or you’ve just stepped off one – and your smartphone or tablet or laptop is out of power, the LIRR has a solution for you: you can now find freestanding USB charging stations and/or technology counters at 19 LIRR stations. These stations are:…
At about 9:15 a.m. on Monday, February 4, a broken rail was discovered on LIRR’s Ronkonkoma Branch near Deer Park on Long Island. LIRR workers responded, fixing the rail by 11:45 a.m., enabling LIRR to operate around the site of the broken rail with minimum service impacts. All thanks to…
To celebrate Valentine’s Day 2019, AModernLI.com is delighted to announce its 2018 Art Guide! Created in collaboration with MTA Arts & Design, the guide includes the location and an image of each work of art installed at LIRR stations in 2018. There were a total of ten art installations at…
Armando Mariño’s artwork, “The Guardian Angel,” is inspired by the historic development of Brentwood and its present as a community. Featuring richly colored flowers from the country of origin of many of Brentwood’s residents, such as Mexican Dahlias, Peruvian qantu, and Salvadorean Flor de Izote, as well as native flowers…
Brentwood Station, along the Ronkonkoma Branch, has been fully renovated and upgraded with a host of customer-facing improvements. Finished upgrades include: • Improved ADA accessibility: a new ADA-compliant bathroom. • New architectural finishes: New terrazzo flooring, bronze storefronts, wood ceilings and exterior brick decorative walls, a new information wall, signage…
Construction is advancing at Brentwood Station. The west‐facing wall is now covered with dark blue ceramic tile, while the remaining three station walls are entirely glass. Electrical and plumbing rough‐in are complete, new lighting fixtures have been delivered to the site and the fire alarm has been installed and is…
On September 21st, Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul joined LIRR President Phillip Eng and MTA Chief Development Officer Janno Lieber to officially open the second track of the LIRR Ronkonkoma Branch and rededicate the branch’s rebuilt and fully-accessible Wyandanch Station. The second track of the Ronkonkoma Branch and the renovation of…
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