1996, in separate incidents, three commuters in a 90-minute period fell into the gap at the station due to icy platform conditions. To remedy the gap situation, the LIRR has installed platform gap lighting, camera surveillance systems, and new platform sections shifted from the current location. The LIRR has also added platform conductors to monitor train boarding, and is instructing crews to announce the gap at the station and to assist passengers. Further improvements, including changing railroad operation standards and the viable use of retractable gap fillers (such as those used in a few New York City Subway stations) are being examined. The railroad has also retained a consultant to review train operations to suggest further changes. Some Syosset residents and politicians, such as former Nassau County Presiding Officer Judy Jacobs, insist the best solution to eliminate the gap problem is to force the LIRR to close the Syosset station and reopen the Landia station to the southwest. Landia is on straight track. A mall is being proposed near the Landia station site. Michael Pally, an MTA board member representing Suffolk County and who also works for a real estate firm that represents the company proposing construction of the mall, believes the Syosset station should be closed because more parking spaces would be available at Landia. Opponents of the mall believe that opening Landia while closing Syosset will just be a ruse to direct people to the mall. The Town of Oyster Bay, which controls the Landia station site, is still gathering information before it makes a decision to ask the LIRR to conduct a study. References External links Syosset Scrapbook(Part 7) (Includes Syosset Station Photos and History) A History of the Syosset Station by Tom Montalbano AMOTT Interlocking and Syosset Platform Gap (The LIRR Today) Station from Jackson Avenue from Google Maps Street View Syosset, New York Long Island Rail Road stations in Nassau County, New York Railway stations in the United States opened in 1854 1854 establishments in New York (state)