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Long Island 1706 map excerpted from a larger New England map Archive: oldmaps.com In 1609, the Dutch East India Company hired English sailor Henry Hudson to find a northeast passage to India. After unsuccessfully searching for a route above Norway, Hudson turned his ship west and sailed across the Atlantic. The first attempt to settle came in 1624, when a group of settlers were sent by the Dutch West India Company. Most of them proceeded upriver to the present site of Albany, but eight men remained on Manhattan and were joined the following year by 45 more settlers. Fort Amsterdam was built to protect the little colony. In 1626, Peter Minuit, the third governor, was instructed to settle the ownership of Manhattan with the Indians. He negotiated a purchase price that has been valued at about 60 guilders, or $24. He also named the town New Amsterdam. Under the later administration of Peter Stuyvesant, the colony prospered, and by the 1650s, about 1,000 were living in New Amsterdam. In 1653, the year that New Amsterdam was incorporated as a city, Stuyvesant built a wooden palisade where Wall Street is today, to mark the northern city limits. On September 8, 1664, New Amsterdam was forced to surrender to Colonel Richard Nicolls as a result of the ongoing struggle between the British and the Dutch. The fort was renamed Fort James and the city, New York. The British were ousted by the Dutch for a short period (1673-1674), but otherwise the city was a British possession until the American Revolution. Source: Wiki One can see the early Dutch influence on place names such as Flatbush, Flushing, and Brooklyn as follows: Haarlem -> Harlem Breukelen -> Brooklyn Staten Land -> Staten Island De Bouwerij -> The Bowery de Brede Weg -> Broadway Jonas Bronck -> the Bronx 's-Gravesande -> Gravesend Konijneneiland -> Coney Island ('rabbits' island') 't Lange Eiland -> Long Island '(the) Long Island' Vlissingen -> Flushing Before there was a New York, English sailors already used the name 'Flushing' for the Dutch port of Vlissingen Native American influence abounds: Sachem Pond (Lake Ronkonkoma), Mentock Point, Hamsted Plains, Meritiock Bay, etc. and of course English influence: Hampton, New York, Newtown, Bedford, etc. all yield a rich cultural naming influence early on that influences the current geographic and place name history to this day! Info: Steven Lynch
LIRR Fan Trips with Maps LIRR Robert Emery Track Maps LIRR MP54 Track Capacity Maps LIRR Expansion Maps Graphic LIRR West Side Yard Montauk Branch - Wilhelm Maps Topographic Maps: AnyPlaceAmerica TopoZone			LIRR Legacy Track Numbering 1/02/2021

LIRR Maps 1952-1955 Henry Raudenbush
LIRR Electrified Archive: Jeff Erlitz		LI City Archive: Jeff Erlitz		LIRR East End Archive: Jeff Erlitz
Henry Raudenbush October 1952 Map LIRR System
Fremont October 1952 Map Central Branch Extension	I spent a lot of time digging out the data for that map. Where I couldn't see things from trains, I walked. So I walked all around Hempstead crossing and that's when I saw those feeder rails. Then I walked the lines from there to Mineola and to West Hempstead . I had the map printed, just in time for the fantrip with #107, and it proved to be a fast seller, so I called home and had the folks bring more copies and meet the trip at a photo stop on the Creedmoor Branch. On the following Monday, I had a call from Paul Blauvelt, the LIRR PR department. He wanted to know if the RR could buy 20 copies, and would I be willing to be interviewed for the Railroad. I went down to Jamaica, and that's when that picture was taken. In the summer of 1957, I worked in the Chief Engineer's office, and found a copy of my map in the file there. On the stretch to West Hempstead , the track ran on a diagonal to the street grid. Somewhere along there, there was a place where it crossed an east- west street, then a north-south street. Between the two streets the track ran across what looked like somebody's front yard for about 30 feet. In this section, there was a 20 foot length of 3rd rail! No fences, nothing. Things were more casual then, and what's more everybody on Long Island knew, and taught their kids, the dangers of the 3rd rail. 6/06/2010 Henry Raudenbush
LIRR Track Profile Maps 1983 Archive: John Fusto
			LIRR System Road Charts Index/Legend - March 1983		Patchogue 1983 Archive: John Fusto Creation: Steve Lynch Montauk Branch track profile map LI City 0-6 miles 1983 Archive: John Fusto LIRR Glendale to Richmond Hill track profile map Archive: John Fusto
Babylon to Patchogue Composite Map updated 1982 Archive: John Fusto Creation: Steve Lynch
Bellport to Westhampton Composite Map updated 1981 Archive: John Fusto Creation: Steve Lynch
LIRR Track Profile Maps 1994
LIRR MOW System Track Profile Maps LEGEND 1/1994			Main Line Track profile map LI City MP0-MP5 1994 LIRR 1994 MOW System Track Profile Maps


LIRR map 1847
LIRR map 1882 G.W. and C. B Colton
LIRR Map 1898
Servoss map 1901 R. D. Servoss Published: Isaac H. Blanchard Co. Archive: New York Public Library
Gulick Realty map 3/04/1906 Brooklyn Eagle ad An important factor in the development of Queens in 1906 is the vast system of public improvements undertaken by the Pennsylvania Railroad, which include those of its subsidiary corporations, the Long Island Railroad and the New York Connecting Railroad. The great tunnel building enterprises under the North and East Rivers and Manhattan Island and the huge union station in Manhattan, extending from Seventh to Ninth Avenues and from 31st to 33rd Streets; the New York Connecting Railroad and the Belmont Tunnel will have aid in bringing the thousands of unimproved acres of Queens within 10 to 25 minutes from the heart of Manhattan. The great Blackwell�s Island Bridge (later Roosevelt Island - Queensborough Bridge) - the largest of the quartet to span the East River and the largest cantilever bridge in the world - will be the important center from which will radiate some of the principal highways of the borough. On the upper floor will be two sidewalks, each eleven feet in width, which will form the most magnificent and popular promenade in the city, affording from their great height of 150 feet, a view of every section of Manhattan and Queens, and of the hills of New Jersey, and of Westchester and of Jamaica Bay and the Atlantic. The nucleus of the proposed Queens system is a grand parkway at no point less than 200 feet wide, from Forest Park along the top of the great backbone of the range of hills running through the borough south of Jamaica to the city line east - over six miles - expanding into parks at the sections where the most remarkable irregularity of these hills renders them most expensive and wasteful for plotting and thus all the better adapted for easy and beautiful park treatment. Such a development of these hilltops would cause Queens to be widely renown. -Excerpt & Map from Brooklyn Eagle, March 4, 1906
LIRR Map 1915 - Long Island Railroad System and Montauk Steamboat Company's Lines
LIRR map 12/1925. Electrification to Babylon May 20, 1925. West Hempstead Branch "to be electrified in 1926" on Oct. 18, 1926. Therefore, the map is from anytime between these 2 dates. Dave Keller
LIRR Freight Stations in Greater New York map c.1930
LIRR - Progress of Electrification Map - 9/15/1948 Archive: Jeff Erlitz
LIRR Freight stations/locations map 6/15/1969 Archive/Research: Kevin Wong Note: A freight station shown may not be an actual depot or terminal, but could simply be a team track or siding usable for pickup or delivery (called a non-agency freight station). Several freight stations were closed or removed from tariff schedules since January 1955 (refer to the PRR A.D. 80 station index), including East Williston, Mill Neck, Hewlett, Woodmere, Baldwin, Wantagh, Seaford, Amityville, Cold Spring Harbor and Stony Brook. Peconic is still included, though removed from service in 1966. Some staffed freight stations with agents did not have separate facilities and the freight agent was based in the passenger station.
LIRR/MTA - Commuter Map - 1981 Archive: Kevin Wong
1918 Composite Area Map (reprint 1940) Creation: Steve Lynch 1918 NY City Tri-State Area	1918 New Jersey Area 1918 Verrazano Narrows		LIRR and Central Railroad of LI - 1873 Library of Congress Central Railroad of LI Garden City to Babylon 1873
Belcher-Hyde - Nassau County map 1914 1907 Steam Boat Line LIRR 1916 Western LIRR Archive: Steven M. Swirsky Brookhaven Rail Terminal 2009 Routes of LIRR MP41 operations. Map courtesy of Herb George's Change at Ozone Park. Red route lines added and map captioned by Dave Keller and Chuck Blardone of "The Keystone".	1847 LIRR System LIRR map c.1895 reprint		1873 Central RR Farmingdale, NY 1909 Queens Station - 1909
	1900 LIRR System
	1898 Brooklyn - Queens Newtown area
	1938 "World's Fair" 1920 Bushwick Freight Branch		1914 LIRR System map
1990's Central Freight Branch with text	1955 Rockaway Beach Branch		LIRR Freight Brochure 05/86 Archive: Paul Strubeck
Town of Southampton map - 6/1940 William K. Dunwell Archive: Southampton Long Island 1640-1965 - LIRR Station notations: Steven Lynch 3/2023
Official track map of the LIRR system produced by Metro-North's Operations Planning & Analysis Department. This edition is v2.1 December 2015, the latest available edition, so it would be dated due to East Side Access and the third track main line widening, but this is the official MTA publication by the agency. Archive: Kevin Wong 2/01/2025
Long Island USGS Topographic Maps
USGS Brooklyn Quadrangle 1889	Western part of Hempstead Township c.1905 USGS Topographic Survey Map Nassau County created on January 1, 1899 Charles D. Walcott (1850-1927) director in 1894, April 1907 resigned as Director of the USGS Research: Steven Lynch
LIRR Main Line 3rd Track Project

May 5, 2016 MTA Document George Chiasson Jr.		General Notice 4-13 7/16/2018 Interlocking Diagram - Jeff Erlitz
2024 NYSDOT Rail Maps

Enlarged detail inset of the metro region, showing active and abandoned LIRR lines. Note the East Side Access to Grand Central is active on both the 2023 and 2024 editions. This 2024 map shows the NYNJ Rail carfloat ferry between 65th Street in Brooklyn and Bayonne, NJ (Greenville). Archive: Kevin Wong