Syosset Station, on the Port Jefferson Branch, serves approximately 6,041 weekday customers. The station building has been completely rebuilt, and the plaza area around the station entrance has been rehabilitated – Tom Fruin’s “Sail” (2019), a 21’ tall stainless steel and plexiglass sculpture, has been installed at the entrance of the station building, where it serves as a welcoming gateway. The platforms have been renewed, and new LED platform lighting and CCTV security cameras have been installed. Other customer amenities include new restrooms, improved signage, information displays, USB charging stations and free public Wi-Fi. The pedestrian overpass has also been rehabilitated.
Enhancements to the Syosset Station are part of a broader LIRR initiative to support the growth and development of Long Island and the wider region.
The Port Jefferson Branch, along the beautiful North Shore of Long Island, is where you’ll find some of Long Island’s loveliest and oldest LIRR stations. The modernization of four of these stations – Port Jefferson, Stony Brook, Northport and Syosset – was completed this year, with impeccable renovations of…
Long Island Rail Road will complete the replacement of track switches east of Syosset over the weekends of August 10-11 and 17-18, work that began on the last weekend in July. These devices allow the railroad to safely switch trains from one track to another between Huntington and Hicksville –…
Tom Fruin’s magnificent “Sail” (2019), a 21’ tall stainless steel and plexiglass sculpture, has been installed at the newly-modernized Syosset Station, where it serves as a welcoming gateway, signifying home, recreation and the area’s natural attractions. The colorful sail casts a kaleidoscope of colorful shadows in the daytime sun and…
The modernization and enhancement of Syosset Station, one of the Long Island Rail Road’s stations with more than 6,000 weekday customers, is nearing completion. The brick façade, roof and windows have been installed at the new station building, and a glass facade has been installed at the building entrance on…
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…
Construction continues to advance at Syosset Station. The roof of the station building is almost complete, as is the installation of the building’s brick façade – window installation is complete.
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:…
Construction is advancing at Syosset Station. The steel frame for the new station building has been erected, wooden walls are being constructed and six new windows have been installed. There is a new bench with seating for four and a new USB charging station in each shelter on the eastbound…
Construction has begun at Syosset Station. A temporary ticket office and waiting room is now open in the parking lot, and construction has begun on a new station building, with a target completion date end of January 2019. Lumber has been delivered, termite repair sheeting and framing are ongoing. Crews…
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