Garden City Outlines Changes Coming Near Merillon Avenue Station

GARDEN CITY, NY — Garden City Mayor Cosmo Veneziale recently outlined the village's plans for improving the road around the Merillon Avenue Train Station. The work will include the area south of the eastbound platform, as well as portions of Main Avenue.

This project includes bumping out the north curb line on the west side of Main Avenue (closest to Meadbrook Road) to create an extended planting bed, as well as the repositioning of the westernmost Main Avenue island to maintain the westbound driving lane to accommodate the new bed.

It also involves marrying the two large islands east and west of the Euston Road cut-through, thereby creating one continuous island and planting bed that will receive large trees to help alleviate light and noise emanating from the train station.

The scope of the project, as defined in the Community Benefits Fund (CBF) Application to the LIRR, also includes additional landscaping along the platform, as well as in the islands on Main Avenue, new sidewalks, curbs, the addition of new drainage infrastructure, light baffles to shield the north platform lights, a new and improved parking area north of the new islands, an extended drop-off area, two new handicapped spaces and other incidentals for pedestrian access such a ramps, signage and crosswalks.

The design drawings, existing estimates and CBF application are available on the village's website.

The project is being funded via the transfer of funds from Village Surplus in the amount of $1,636,000, which is the amount currently available in the CBF. The CBF application is a pre approval process established by the LIRR as part of the Third Track Project. Actual expenses incurred are later submitted by the Village Treasurer to the LIRR for reimbursement against the approved project.

The LIRR has told the village that the CBF application scope of the project is being approved while the village is still awaiting a decision on the amount of the existing CBF funding that will be available.