Centre Avenue (other)
Centre Avenue or Center Avenue may refer to: * Centre Avenue station, a Long Island Rail Road station in East Rockaway, New York, U.S. * Centre Avenue (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania, U.S. * Center Avenue Neighborhood Residential District The Center Avenue Neighborhood Residential District is a residential historic district located in Bay City, Michigan, running primarily along Center, Fifth, and Sixth Avenues between Monroe and Green Avenues, with additional portions of the distr ...

Centre Avenue Station
Centre Avenue is one of two railroad stations of the Long Island Rail Road in East Rockaway, New York. The station is officially located at Forest Avenue between Rocklyn and Centre Avenues, one block east of Atlantic Avenue, from Penn Station. The station can also be accessed from the intersection of Forest and Centre avenues. History The station was opened in 1898 by the New York and Long Beach Railroad and originally was known as South Lynbrook station until 1924. Centre Avenue station was originally located a block to the west and had a station house, but was moved east when high-level platforms were installed in the late 1960s in order to facilitate the new M1 Railcars. Parts of the original platform are still visible along the trackside towards Lynbrook. The station's parking lot is adjacent to the site of the former station. Station layout This station has two high-level wheelchair-accessible side platforms, each 10 cars long, with shelters and ticket vending machines. ...
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Centre Avenue (Pittsburgh)
Centre Avenue is a main thoroughfare in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It stretches from Sixth Avenue near the Allegheny County Courthouse The Allegheny County Courthouse in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is part of a complex (along with the old Allegheny County Jail) designed by H. H. Richardson. The buildings are considered among the finest examples of the Romanesque Revi ... to East Liberty. Because of redevelopments to areas at both ends of Centre Avenue, the street is now somewhat shorter than it had been in 1970. At its downtown end, it now ends at Sixth Avenue. It lost about 500 feet (160 m) when the old Plaza building was razed and the "T" (subway) was built. At its other terminus, it was shortened by about 1000 feet (320 m) when East Liberty was re-designed and Penn Circle South produced. Charts produced prior to 1970 were drawn with Centre Avenue longer than its current length. Centre Avenue was extended in 2014, when the streets composing Penn Circle were ...
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