One of the true gems of the Long Island Rail Road, Port Jefferson Station, located on the Port Jefferson Branch, serves approximately 1,375 riders each weekday. The current station building, opened on July 25, 1903, was designed by famed architect Stanford White, most known for designing the triumphal arch at…
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…
The LIRR is working throughout the system to improve the infrastructure to give passengers a smoother ride, including switch replacement work. To complete these crucial replacements, there will be no LIRR train service the weekend of September 6-7 between New Hyde Park and Hicksville, with reduced schedules between Penn Station…
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 –…
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:…
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…
The enhancement of Port Jefferson Station is nearing completion. The columns surrounding the station building have been unwrapped, and the station’s new parking lot – which now features new landscaping and a sculpture by artist David McQueen, “…the vast and endless sea…” – has been open since the beginning of…
David McQueen’s sculpture, “…the vast and endless sea…” (2018), commissioned by MTA Arts & Design, has been installed at Port Jefferson Station. The sculpture has been placed in a landscaped pedestrian pathway linking Main Street to the station building and platform. It was fabricated by KC Fabrications. The stainless-steel sculpture…
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