Travel and Parking

For families traveling to Stony Brook Children’s Hospital, a variety of transportation options and directions are available to make the trip as smooth as possible. Whether coming by car, bus or train, the hospital provides helpful travel tips, including parking information, driving directions and public transportation routes. This ensures that patients and their families can arrive comfortably and with ease, no matter where they're coming from.

Temporary parking is available in the hospital garage for a fee based on an hourly rate (with a maximum per day rate), or with the purchase of a parking pass. Current rates are posted near the entrance gates to the garage.

Call the garage office at (631) 444-6607 or (631) 444-6608 for details.

Parking Garage Office opening hours:

  • Monday to Friday:  6:30 am to 9 pm
  • Saturday: 1 pm to 7 pm
  • Sunday: 11 am to 5 pm

Parking passes can be purchased, allowing visitors access to the hospital garage only. Passes are valid for a maximum of 30 days from the date of purchase.

Purchase: Parking passes can be purchased at the parking garage office on Level 1 of the garage (see above for hours of operation).

Call the garage office: (631) 444-6607 or (631) 444-6608 for details.

Valet parking at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital is offered for a fee and located by the entrance to the Children’s Hospital.

The fee will be collected at the valet booth. Please note that a parking garage validation cannot be used for valet parking. You must present your valet ticket to the attendant to claim your vehicle.

For current fees call: (631) 444-9568.

Service available:

  • Monday through Friday: 7 am to 9 pm
  • Saturday and Sunday: 9 am to 9 pm

When bringing your child to the Pediatric Emergency Department, valet parking is free. The Emergency Department valet is open 24/7.

The hospital offers a free shuttle service to transport patients and family members, employees, students and volunteers to and from the hospital and its off-site locations:

  • Ambulatory Surgery Center
  • Advanced Specialty Care at Stony Brook
  • Stony Brook Technology Center (known as Tech Park)

Operating Hours: Monday to Friday 8 am to 4:30 pm.

The shuttle’s schedule is posted at all off-site locations and is available at the Information Desk.

For more information, call Courier Services: (631) 444-2640.

  1. Take the Long Island Expressway (I-495) to Exit 62 North, Nicolls Road (CR 97)
  2. Travel approximately eight miles, crossing Nesconset Highway (Route 347)
  3. After crossing Nesconset Highway, go to the third traffic light, turn right at the sign for “Stony Brook South
  4. Entrance, East Campus” (Health Sciences Drive)
  5. Turn left at the second traffic light to enter the hospital parking garage
  1. Travel south on Nicolls Road (CR 97)
  2. At the third traffic light, turn left at the sign for “Stony Brook South Entrance, East Campus” (Health Sciences Drive)
  3. Turn left at the second traffic light to enter the hospital parking garage

Call Suffolk County Transit Bus at (631) 852-5200 for schedules and times of different routes to and from Stony Brook Children’s Hospital.

From Penn Station in Manhattan, take the Long Island Rail Road’s (LIRR) Port Jefferson line to Stony Brook. For a LIRR schedule, call (718) 217-5477 or visit mta.info/lirr.

Taxi service is available from the train station to the hospital. To make arrangements, call (631) 444-4444 or (631) 473-0707.

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