Kaminsky pushes for movement with Lynbrook LIRR station $17.9M renovation

The Long Island Rail Road has pledged to overhaul its crumbling Lynbrook station with $17.9 million in repairs next year and plans for more extensive improvements in the future.

The project, set to begin next spring, follows years of complaints by commuters and elected officials about the condition of the 80-year-old station, where wood beams help hold up deteriorating station platforms, divots in floors cause puddles and ice to form, and rainwater leaks through rotting roofs.

“Yesterday it was raining underneath the canopy,” LIRR commuter Janet Rivera, 36, said Tuesday as she waited for her Brooklyn-bound train at the Lynbrook station. “I felt like I needed my umbrella just to stand here.”

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