New York's Hidden Least Used Station

[@Kidney7661]

Used to work in an office right next to the greenvale station on plaza road. It’s in the middle of a very expensive neighborhood and it makes sense why it would be so infrequent.

[@MassbyTrain]

Station is least used: in the middle of nowhere Honaj: I have to go there Honaj: complains it’s boring

[@honajtransit]

just wait for Yaphank (if I ever do Yaphank)

[@petedenton9434]

Every time I watch one of you videos I keep meaning to say how much I love the music you add.

[@kennethstein8394]

The Valley of the Ashes was located where Flushing Meadows Park is today.

[@honajtransit]

really? i thought it was inspired by alley pond marsh!

[@brucegalbraith6029]

@@honajtransit it used to be called the Corona Alps...it was a dump that mu dad set on fire in the 1930s.

[@roaddogg800]

Love these obscure routes and places, always gives me ideas for train trips when in the area.

[@cja6139]

I used to have to go from Jamaica to Greenvale daily when I worked there before I got a car. Scheduling is rough and I always had the station to myself. Happy to have contributed to their low ridership number lol

[@qazatqazah]

Nice episode. I especially value the map that you put in. Thank you!

[@andreawoelke]

Weird seats for a commuter train. The leatherette looks so 70s too. It's time Stadler and Siemens make an impact on US rolling stock.

[@honajtransit]

these cars were custom-built for the LIRR, and they have been a headache for them operationally. iirc the LIRR is getting new siemens chargers at some point soon tho

[@Blakk_Wolf7]

Why are you taking the PW line of you're doing to Greenvale? You should've just taken the oyster bay branch. It's right after Roslyn

[@honajtransit]

well, as i said in the video, the OB is very infrequent, and also the PW is one of my favorite train lines in the NY area

[@ddrdanganvloger2187]

Could’ve stayed on the n20H to Nassau 2- Glen Cove Rd/Guienna Woods Rd/Clinton St/Ave. to transfer to the n27/LTD.

[@honajtransit]

n27 is peak only, but also where’s the fun in that?

[@ddrdanganvloger2187]

@@honajtransit um, no. The n27LTD is peak, but the n27 runs every Mon-Fri & sometimes sat. The fun is going to midtown new Hempstead to Glen Clove (Cove). The. There’s my idea of the NM27 Glen Cove to Harlem-125th via. Henry Hudson Blvd. & Broadway (before the Pkwy.).

[@RealCrimsonPeach_TSFTWDTFTL]

I'm surprised Greenvale qualifies as a least used station, especially considering that it's the closest station to the CW Post Campus at LIU. But when you think about it, it actually kind of makes sense since Oyster Bay Branch service is relatively less frequent compared to service on other branches. Not gonna lie, though, the stuff in that bakery in Greenvale looks amazing!

[@honajtransit]

yep, as I mentioned, Greenvale, West, Hempstead, and Hempstead Gardens are all pretty low used and this year Greenvale edged the other two out

[@RichardAuletta]

Decades ago, the station was known as "Greenvale / C. W. Post College" but since about 1970, the college has run shuttle buses to the busier Hicksville railroad station and the regional shopping center close to that station.

[@markiangooley]

120 years ago, Long Island was largely wilderness. The little cities in the middle of Illinois, where I grew up, were well-established by then… and were developing streetcars and pretty good interurban electric rail. But the streetcars and interurbans were all gone by 1960. Things change.

[@RonGerstein]

@markiangooley The difference branches of the LIRR were originally separate railroads, but the LIRR bought these railroads and integrated them into its track lines.

[@BrianNeal]

Do you know how lucky you are to get to travel like you do? I don't live near any cool riding trains! The only train I ride regularly is the one at Kings Island amusement Park, where I go weekly! But this is more neat places I enjoyed seeing you go to!

[@RonGerstein]

Every train branch of the LIRR has a least used station.

[@honajtransit]

nope, this is the least used in nassau county (i’m doing it by geography not by line, see the spreadsheet in the description for more)

[@kenw7287]

Just wanted to offer some constructive criticism: You should maybe consider dubbing over your footage in post-production/editing. There was a lot of flubbing and stuttering that lowers the production value. Also, you can maybe consider a better camera/less shaking. Keep up the good work though. You are young and are already willing to make content for us random people here on the internet.

[@thesuperharrisonchannel4310]

I love theses videos!!!!!,😂 still working on my model railroad!?

[@dutchvanderlinde154]

thought it would be glenn street

[@assonance9057]

Haha ur so dope thx for this 😊

[@djcutwizard]

If you had stayed on the N20 until you reach glen cove road bus stop you would had been only five blocks away from the train station

[@honajtransit]

but where’s the fun in that?

[@djcutwizard]

Lol I understand now 👍

[@Ilovetubes]

The next time you're in the United Kingdom we should do a KZbin collab, only thing is I'm 15 lol 😂

[@Neville60001]

He's still a teenager, so it should't be a problem for you ( _I'd_ like to meet him if he ever came here to Toronto, but I'm 56 years old, and it would seem as if I was going to do something to him.)

[@honajtransit]

that would be fun, but i probably won't be in the UK again for a while, and also unfortunately my mom does not allow me to meet people in person that she has not met!

[@Ilovetubes]

@@honajtransit oh I mean it's a nice dream lol, how old are you btw if you don't mind me asking?

[@honajtransit]

fair lol, im 16

[@Ilovetubes]

@@honajtransit oh cool, I know i probably sound like a very weird person rn but do you have discord? I would genuinely like to be your friend

[@kennethryesky417]

Camera could have been kept a bit more steady.

[@Benasorus]

I thought Yaphank was the least used station

[@honajtransit]

greenvale is least used in nassau, yaphank is least used in suffolk (and on long island)

[@tommarino1056]

Looks like an expensive area

[@GobbiExists]

Yup. Nassau and Suffolk counties (the 2 counties that make up Long Island, excluding the parts in the city) have the largest GDP per capital in the USA!

[@Neville60001]

@tommarino1056, it's pretty much an enclave for middle-class and upper middle class people. But I don't think that it's as boring as people make it out to be.

[@justingerald]

My wife and I wnated to buy a house because we needed space. We work in Manhattan. We considered NJ, as there's tons of transit there. We considered, and ended up choosing, Yonkers, because we can walk to the Metro North and it's reliable, and there are actual sidewalks and lots of buses too. We drive but we do plenty of walking. We considered Long Island for about one second then immediately laughed and said, absolutely not.

[@MassbyTrain]

Long Island seems very boring

[@RealCrimsonPeach_TSFTWDTFTL]

I happen to live on Long Island, and I have to admit that I actually kind of agree with you. There's not really much to do most of the time.

[@Neville60001]

It's not boring, and it has a charm all of its own; just because it doesn't have the same kind of urbanity that you're used to doesn't mean that it's boring.

[@RonGerstein]

The island called Long Island includes on its western end BROOKLYN and QUEENS, part of NEW YORK CITY. So are you saying Brooklyn and Queens are boring? The western part of Long Island that is not part of NEW YORK CITY is Nassau County, and it has Jones Beach as a popular destination. The eastern end of Long Island is Suffolk County, and the Hamptons are located there, where the rich people stay in the summer. SO LONG ISLAND IS NOT BORING.

[@honajtransit]

@Neville60001 i guess long island might maybe have some cool bits, but overall it really is quite boring (and boring areas separate the cool bits!)

[@honajtransit]

@RonGerstein long island the island includes brooklyn and queens, yes, but 99% of the time “long island” refers to nassau and suffolk counties, both of which are almost entirely boring suburbia - yes there are *some* cool areas but they are few and far between