Greenvale station
railway station in Greenvale, the United States of America
Greenvale (formerly known as Week's) is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Oyster Bay Branch. The station is located off Helen Street, between Glen Cove Avenue and Glen Cove Road within the Village of Roslyn Harbor, in Nassau County, New York, United States.
History
The Greenvale station was originally established by the Glen Cove Branch Rail Road – a subsidiary of the Long Island Rail Road which opened the year prior between Mineola and Glen Head – on July 21, 1866, as "Week's station," a freight-only station primarily used for delivering milk. Passengers were briefly allowed at the station in 1875, and then again sometime during the 1880s. At some point, the station was renamed "Greenvale."
The passenger station has never existed as anything else other than a sheltered platform. On May 17, 1891, it was demolished by a locomotive that collided with a horse whose hoof was stuck in the switching apparatus; the collision resulted in the deaths of the horse and the two crew members. The station was subsequently rebuilt.
In 1921, it was announced that the sparsely-used North Roslyn station – a flag stop located roughly 2⁄3 mile (1.1 km) to the south of Greenvale – would close. In turn, the Greenvale station would receive additional service and facilities; Greenvale – unlike North Roslyn – had room to accommodate such expansions, with lots nearby being available for purchase. That station closed on March 16, 1924.
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