Trains have been stopping in Roslyn since January 1865, and the station building that still serves riders today dates to 1887, when the Roslyn News called it “the handsomest station on the Branch.”
Working with the MTA, the Roslyn Landmark Society has gathered historic photographs of Roslyn’s transportation history, and they are now on display in the waiting room of the Roslyn LIRR station. The project was led by Co-Vice President Mitchell Schwartz, whose research into the station’s past has turned up some of our favorite stories, including Christopher Morley’s 1940 fight to get the Long Island Rail Road to remove the stucco covering the station’s brick façade. Our Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation Scholar, Brooke Casamar, framed the photographs for display.
The gallery is open to anyone passing through, whether you’re catching a train or just curious. If it leaves you wanting to know more about the building itself, our profile of the Roslyn Railroad Station traces its architecture and the many changes it has gone through. Thank you to the MTA for partnering with us to bring this history back to the place where so much of it happened.
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