There was a time (in the UK at least) when the word station would only ever be taken to refer to a railway station. For some reason, nowadays people insist on referring to a station as a train station, as if there was any other sort of station.
Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) An American novelist, writer of short stories, and poet from the American Renaissance period. Most famous for his novel Moby Dick. Born in New York, NY (408). Esther Hobart Morris (1814 - 1902) The first female Justice of the Peace in the United States.
Richard Dreyfuss was born in Brooklyn in 1947, and grew up in Los Angeles. He made waves with his role in the film American Graffiti and hits like Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind followed, along with an Oscar for The Goodbye Girl. Drug addiction derailed his career, but Dreyfuss made a comeback in the 1980s.