Westwood station (LIRR)

Westwood
View from the platform, facing north.
General information
LocationFoster Avenue & Motley Street
Malverne, New York
Coordinates40°40′05.8″N 73°40′53.1″W / 40.668278°N 73.681417°W / 40.668278; -73.681417
Owned byLong Island Rail Road
Line(s)West Hempstead Branch
Distance1.4 mi (2.3 km) from Valley Stream[1]
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks1
Construction
ParkingYes; Village of Malverne & Lynbrook permits required
Bicycle facilitiesYes; Bicycle Racks
AccessibleYes
Other information
Fare zone4
History
OpenedSeptember 1929
Rebuilt1955
ElectrifiedOctober 19, 1926
750 V (DC) third rail
Passengers
2006711[2]
Services
Preceding station Long Island Rail Road Following station
St. Albans West Hempstead Branch Malverne
Location
Map

Westwood is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's West Hempstead Branch serving the villages of Malverne and Lynbrook, New York. The station platform is located on Foster Avenue in Malverne, with parking facilities on both the Malverne (Foster Avenue at Motley Street) and Lynbrook (Whitehall Street at Whittier Street) sides of the tracks. It has no station building other than a pair of open shelters, the larger one on the Malverne side of the tracks. It also features a gated at-grade pedestrian crossing,[3] one of only a few stations on the Long Island Rail Road to feature such crossings.

No buses connect to Westwood station. A basketball court can be found on the Malverne side of the station between the platform and parking lot.[4]

  1. ^ Long Island Rail Road (May 14, 2012). "TIMETABLE No. 4" (PDF). p. VII. Retrieved August 7, 2022.
  2. ^ Average weekday, 2006 LIRR Origin and Destination Study
  3. ^ Westwood's at-grade Pedestrian Crossing looking from Lynbrook into Malverne (Unofficial LIRR History Website)[usurped]
  4. ^ DanTD (June 10, 2010). Westwood Station from the Basketball Court (photograph). Retrieved July 15, 2013. {{cite AV media}}: External link in |people= (help)