Country Life Press is one of five

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of the

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within the village of

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. It serves the Hempstead Branch and is located on Damson Street and St. James Street South in Garden City.

History

The station was originally opened in 1911 for the sole purpose of serving the book publisher

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, which had moved in 1910 from Manhattan to Garden City, where co-founder and vice-president Walter Hines Page lived. It is named for the publisher's "Country Life Press" that was located across the tracks. Country Life Press station has some former rights-of-way that led to the

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and the

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es. It also included the remnants of the Central Branch of the Long Island Rail Road that terminated near

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. In 2022, the Long Island Rail Road announced plans to demolish the station house, which had fallen into a state of disrepair, and replacing it with a landscaped plaza. That December, the Village of Garden City's officials, through a 7-1 vote, opted through

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not to attempt saving the structure, given safety concerns (many of which were raised by members of the community) and the poor state of the structure.

Station layout

The station has one 10-car-long

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on the east side of the single track.

Image gallery

File:LIRR Country Life Press south end of the station feb 2017.jpg, View of the tracks from the south end of the platform. File:12-Country Life Press LIRR; 2017-11-15.jpg, The station house along the north end of the low level platform.

References

External links

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Country Life Press Station History (Arrt's Arrchives)St. James Street entrance from Google Maps Street ViewDigitzed copies of books on the Country Life Press and books published by the facility
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GARDEN Interlocking (The LIRR Today)Platform from Google Maps Street View
Garden City, New York Long Island Rail Road stations in Nassau County, New York Railway stations in the United States opened in 1911 {{NewYork-railstation-stub