Garden City Board OKs Repair Work At Nassau Blvd LIRR Station

GARDEN CITY, NY — The Garden City Board of Trustees has awarded a nearly $900,000 contract to repair the brickwork at the Nassau Boulevard train station. Most of the cost of the project will be covered by the Long Island Rail Road.

Due to the demands that are being placed on the station with the LIRR's third track project, the board felt the station brickwork needed repairs. It awarded a contract for $899,000 to Pioneer Landscaping and Asphalt Paving, Inc. to repair the bricks at the historic station.

“The biggest challenge that’s faced with this work is the condition of the existing bricks.
Every effort will be made to retain and reuse as many as possible, but until the job is
started and crews can be brought in to evaluate their condition we won’t know how much
can be retained,” Public Works Superintendent Joseph DiFrancisco said. “Specifications
for the job will reflect this and it will contain different plans based off of the amount of
bricks that can be reused.”

The bricks that are in place now are original to the station, which was built in 1907, according to Village Historian William Bellmer. Over the last century, the only changes the village has made to the station is the elimination of a center island in the parking lot and a slight extension to the north.

The board said the village is also planning to repair the walls surrounding the station.

The LIRR has pre-approved $1.6 million to fund the paving project through a community fund, which was established for each village that is affected by the third track project. Of the $1.6 million, $765,000 was earmarked for this work in the 2019-20 Capital Plan. An additional $134,000 was requested in the 2020-21 Capital Budget.