Canoe Place
General information
LocationShinnecock Canal
Canoe Place, New York
Coordinates40°53′16″N 72°30′03″W / 40.887661°N 72.500762°W / 40.887661; -72.500762
Owned byLong Island Rail Road (former)
History
Opened1935[1]
Closed1953[1]
Former services
Preceding station Long Island
Rail Road 		Following station
Hampton Bays
toward Long Island City
 Montauk Division Suffolk Downs
toward Montauk

Canoe Place was a station stop along the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road and first opened as a low cinder platform on the south east side of Shinnecock Canal in 1935. The station was in service for "Fisherman's Special" trains and was closed in 1953.[1][2][3] "Fisherman's Special" trains operated from Penn Station to Montauk and provided an intermediate stop at Canoe Place for boats waiting to take anglers out on Peconic Bay.[4][5] The station was located between Hampton Bays and Suffolk Downs Stations.[6] The hamlet where it was located is now part of Hampton Bays, New York.

References

  1. ^ a b c Morrison, David D. (2021). Long Island Rail Road: Montauk Branch. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. p. 83. ISBN 9781467106900.
  2. ^ "Montauk". Letter to the Editor. The New York Times. November 5, 1989. p. A26. Retrieved December 2, 2022.
  3. ^ "Fishing and the LIRR". trainsarefun.com. Retrieved December 2, 2022.
  4. ^ Meyer, Robert Jr. (June 12, 1949). "Fisherman's Special to Montauk". The New York Times. p. X19. Retrieved November 30, 2022.
  5. ^ Weigold, Marilyn E. (2015). Peconic Bay: Four Centuries of History on Long Island's North and South Forks. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. p. 147. ISBN 9780815653097.
  6. ^ "LONG ISLAND STATION HISTORY". trainsarefun.com. Archived from the original on 2010-04-08. Retrieved 2010-01-06.


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