History
Central Islip station was originally built on November 14, 1873, on the southeast corner of Suffolk County Roads 17 & 100 as a replacement for the former 1842-built Suffolk station on Islip Avenue(now NY 111, then Fifth Avenue). It was remodeled in 1916 and again in 1958. On November 16, 1987, it was moved to the corner of Lowell Avenue as part of a major reconstruction of the line in Ronkonkoma, Central Islip, Brentwood, Deer Park, and Wyandanch. The station was built on the site of a former spur to the Central Islip Psychiatric Center, including the hospital's power plant that was abandoned years before the hospital was closed. Across Lowell Avenue is the site of a Waldbaum's warehouse that once had a freight spur leading to it.
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