Big, bright, bold, and beautiful. That’s how you could now describe LIRR’s Nostrand Avenue Station as its modernization was unveiled last week – complete with two brand new ADA-accessible elevators. LIRR President Phillip Eng was joined by local elected officials, advocates, and community members on Jan. 31 in Bedford-Stuyvesant to…
The eastbound platform at Nostrand Avenue Station is nearly complete, and progress continues on the westbound platform. Platform canopies have been erected and two digital information displays are now suspended from the canopies and providing service information. New yellow tactile warning strips have been installed on both platforms for enhanced…
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…
Construction continues to progress at Nostrand Avenue Station. Girders are up along the eastbound platform and, at the southeast quadrant of the station, structural steel is being installed, an overpass has been erected and a new staircase will be installed. The new eastbound and westbound platforms are FRP (Fiber-Reinforced Polymer)…
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…
MTA Long Island Rail Road crews continued important infrastructure rehabilitation at Nostrand Avenue Station in Brooklyn over the weekend of January 26-27, with further work to be completed over the weekend of February 2-3, while the NYC Department of Transportation works to rebuild the Atlantic Avenue Bridge at East New…
Construction is advancing at Nostrand Avenue Station. The eastbound platform is partially complete. The project will take advantage of a special service plan during the final weekend of January and the first weekend of February to advance work on the westbound platform. Both platforms, and the east end staircase, are…
A new six-story residential building will soon take shape at 2001 Nostrand Avenue, in Flatbush, Brooklyn, according to recent permits filed with the DOB. Located just a few blocks away from a diverse, retail corridor along Flatbush Avenue, the original structure once functioned as a church, but sold with the…
Long Island is in the midst of historic change. For years, as other regions invested in areas like quality, affordable rental housing, mixed-use development, and public transit, LI was content with the status quo.
We sat silent as we watched droves of young people — educated in our outstanding public schools at significant expense — leave home and help create economic growth in other regions of our country.
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