Long Island Rail Road [LIRR] review: Hunterspoint Train Station

I am currently partially disabled due to replacement knee surgery and was travelling home from Long Island City Monday 8/27/23 to ride the 5:00 train out of Hunterspoint. It was positioned with the last car 1 car behind the stairs on the

eastbound side of the platform. I was very slowly coming down the stairs and go to the lower of the 3 sets of stairs when the doors closed & the train left.

I understand completely about train schedules but if a conductor was simply standing outside the stairs he would have seen me struggling to get down them.

At that point I had to wait another hour for the next rain.

It's bad enough about the wait, but the station is a pigs sty - it looks like it hasn't been cleaned in years - cigarette butts al over the waiting enclosures, pigeon droppings sometimes an inch high, garbage all over. As far as maintenance goes, the only thing I've seen happen over almost the last 10 years is slippery yellow plywood put over one side of the platform rather than replace the broken/rotting/splintered wood. it hasn't ever been painted, the stair railings are rusting & are potentially going to come apart, the frames holding up the roof are rusting & filled with debris/Pidgeon "stuff".

It isnt ADA compliant in the least bit - but the MTA is going to build a new station out in Yapank at $20 million for 20 passengers. Prior to Covid, Hunterspoint station was probably used by thousands of passengers - now maybe hundreds - but it looks like nothing has been done to it in years- outside of emptying the garbage cans.