Deer Park (LIRR station)

Deer Park
Deer Park Station from the parking lot
Location	Pineaire Drive, Grant (Executive) Avenue & Long Island Avenue West Brentwood, New York
Coordinates	40°46′10″N 73°17′37″W / 40.76948°N 73.293577°W / 40.76948; -73.293577Coordinates: 40°46′10″N 73°17′37″W / 40.76948°N 73.293577°W / 40.76948; -73.293577
Owned by	MTA
Line(s)	Main Line (Ronkonkoma Branch)
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	Suffolk County Transit: S27 Tanger Outlets Shuttle
Construction
Parking	Yes; Free
Bicycle facilities	Yes; Bicycle Rack
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	9
History
Opened	1987
Electrified	January 18, 1988 750 V (DC) third rail
Traffic
Passengers (2006)	5,417
Services
Preceding station   LIRR   Following station Wyandanch toward New York terminals Main Line (Ronkonkoma Branch) Brentwood toward Greenport

Deer Park is a station along the Main Line (Ronkonkoma Branch) of the Long Island Rail Road. It is officially located at Pineaire Drive, Executive (formerly Grant) Avenue, and Long Island Avenue near Deer Park, New York. The actual location is in West Brentwood, New York, directly over the Deer Park border.

Deer Park, sometimes mentioned as Deerpark, station was previously located at the bridge over New York State Route 231, until it was moved as part of a major reconstruction project of the line at Ronkonkoma, Central Islip, Brentwood, Deer Park, and Wyandanch. The original station was built in 1842, then rebuilt in 1884, and again 1936 for the bridge over Deer Park Avenue (NY 231 did not exist at the time). The 1987-built station was built close to the former Pine Aire station near the Pilgrim State Psychiatric Center (see below), served as a replacement for both stations, and was also originally planned also to replace Brentwood Station until public opposition from Brentwood thwarted that proposal. As a result, some people refer to it as "Pine Aire" station rather than its given name. In the process of reconstruction, a former one-lane bridge was blocked off.

Pineaire (or Pine Aire) was a station stop along the Ronkonkoma Branch of the Long Island Rail Road in West Brentwood, New York. It was located east of the Pilgrim State Hospital Spur than the currently combined Deer Park-Pineaire complex. In fact it was located on the east side of Sagtikos State Parkway on the opposite side of the intersection of Pine Aire Drive (formerly Edgewood Road) and Manatuck Boulevard. The station first opened around 1915 near the former Thompson's Station across from a freight spur, and was finally closed around October 1986, when the two stations were being combined into one.