This is a great thread, thank you guys for posting all this good stuff.
I moved south out of Long Island in 2003, but have lots of family up there (Bayville, Oyster Bay, Bethpage, Babylon, etc.) and spent over 4 yrs commuting from Bayville to NYC via the Locust Valley station, or Syosset/Hicksville. My brother commutes from Bethpage to NYC every day, for around 20 yrs now.
Here's a couple pics of me at the Oyster Bay Railroad Museum https://www.obrm.org back in 2016 when I last visited.