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Title: Long Island Rail Road Stops, May 2019

• GIS Lab, Newman Library, Baruch CUNY

Dates

• Issued: 5/31/2019
• Coverage: 2019

Publishers

• Newman Library (Bernard M. Baruch College)

Summary

This point layer was created using the GTFS data feeds from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). It represents the stop locations for the MTA Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), where a stop represents a train station (specifically the center point of the track in front of the station) that serves one or more routes. A python script was written to take the data files as input, process them and save them as a spatial layer in the local state plane coordinate reference system. The unique ID is stop_id, a field created by the MTA. This dataset is intended for researchers, policy makers, students, and educators for basic geographic analysis and mapping purposes. It was created by the GIS Lab at the Newman Library at Baruch College CUNY as part of the NYC Mass Transit Spatial Layers series, so that members of the public could have access to well-documented and readily-usable GIS layers of NYC mass transit features.

Subjects

• Transportation
• New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, New York, United States
• New York City, New York, United States
• Kings County, New York, United States
• New York County, New York, United States
• Queens County, New York, United States
• Borough of Brooklyn, New York, United States
• Borough of Manhattan, New York, United States
• Borough of Queens, New York, United States
• Nassau County, New York, United States
• Suffolk County, New York, United States
• Local transit
• Commuting
• Railroads
• Railroad stations
• Railroad terminals
• Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

• Geometry: BBOX (-74.2547234738238, -73.700920195218, 40.9128687545771, 40.4991844371223)

Provider

NYU Libraries

Rights

• Access rights: Public

Citation

GIS Lab, Newman Library, Baruch CUNY. Long Island Rail Road Stops, May 2019. Newman Library (Bernard M. Baruch College). Point data. http://hdl.handle.net/2451/60064

Format

Shapefile

Languages

• English