Westwood (LIRR station)

Infobox Station
name=Westwood
style=LIRR


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address=Foster Avenue & Motley Street
Malverne, NY
line=rail color box|system=LIRR|line=West Hempstead
other=All Island Taxi
platform=1
tracks=1
parking=Yes; Village of Malverne & Lynbrook permits required
bicycle=Yes
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opened=1929
closed=
rebuilt=1955
ADA=yes
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owned=MTA
zone=4
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Westwood is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's West Hempstead Branch serving the villages of Malverne, Lynbrook, and Valley Stream, New York. The station platform is located on Foster Avenue in Malverne, New York, with parking facilities on both the Malverne (Foster Avenue at Motley Street) and Lynbrook (Whitehall Street at John Street) sides of the tracks. It has no station building, because the 1929-built station was gutted into a shelter in 1955. It also has a gated at-grade pedestrian crossing, which is only one of two stations like this on the Long Island Rail Road.

No buses connect to Westwood Station, however local suburban taxi cabs do stop there.

External links

* [http://lirr42.mta.info/stationinfo.asp?station=088 LIRR station information for Westwood]
*Unofficial LIRR History Website
** [http://www.lirrhistory.com/feb99/ww1.jpgWestwood Station--Lynbrook side (1999 Photo)]
** [http://www.lirrhistory.com/jun2006/westwood008.jpgWestwood Station--Malverne side (2006 Photo of one parking lot)]
** [http://www.lirrhistory.com/jun2006/westwood007.jpgWestwood Station (2006 Photo sheltered platform by railroad tracks)]
** [http://www.lirrhistory.com/jun2006/westwood005.jpgWestwood's at-grade Pedestrian Crossing looking from Lynbrook into Malverne]