Irvington station (Metro-North)

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Irvington station (Metro-North)

Coordinates: 41°02′22″N 73°52′24″W / 41.0395°N 73.8733°W

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Irvington

Looking south along the tracks from the east platform. Temporary platform in place opposite during summer 2007 renovations.

General information

Location

1 Astor Street, Irvington, New York

Coordinates

41°02′22″N 73°52′24″W / 41.0395°N 73.8733°W

Line(s)

Hudson Line

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Construction

Parking

283 spaces

Accessible

Yes

Other information

Fare zone

History

Opened

1849

Rebuilt

1899

Electrified

700V (DC) third rail

Previous names

Dearman (1849–1854)^[1]^[2]

Passengers

2018

1,222^[3] (Metro-North)

Rank

49 of 109^[3]

Services

Preceding station	Metro-North Railroad			Following station
Tarrytown toward Croton–Harmon		Hudson Line		Ardsley-on-Hudson toward Grand Central

Former services

Preceding station	New York Central Railroad			Following station
Tarrytown toward Peekskill		Hudson Division		Ardsley-on-Hudson toward New York

U.S. Historic district
Contributing property

Official name

Irvington New York Central Railroad Station

Designated

January 15, 2014

Part of

Irvington Historic District (New York)

Reference no.

13001095^[4]

Architectural style

Richardson Romanesque

Location

Irvington station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line, located in Irvington, New York.

History

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The Hudson River Railroad reached the settlement by 1849; the first passengers on a regularly scheduled run through the village paid fifty cents to travel from Peekskill to Chambers Street in Manhattan on September 29, 1849.^[5] The community was in the process of renaming itself after author Washington Irving, despite the fact that he was still alive at the time. In 1852, Irvington was also named for the first coal-fueled steam locomotive of the Hudson River Railroad.^[6] The HRR was acquired by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1869, and the New York Central Railroad in 1913.

The existing station house was built in 1889 and designed by the Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge architectural firm. As with most of the stations along the Hudson Line, it was transformed into a Penn Central station when New York Central merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1968. Bankruptcy of the company followed by 1970, and Penn Central eventually turned passenger service over to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York, who made it part of Metro-North in 1983.

Irvington's former New York Central Railroad station, built in 1889,^[7] has been a contributing property of the Irvington Historic District since January 15, 2014.^[8] Since being retired as a ticket office in 1957, it has been utilized as an art and curio shop, an office for the Weyerhauser lumber yard which was located on the other side of the tracks – now Scenic Hudson Park^[9] – and the office of an architectural firm. In 2016, with the addition of an outdoor garden, it was converted into a 20-seat café serving frozen yogurt.^[7]

Station layout

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The station has two slightly offset high-level side platforms each eight cars long.^[10]^: 3 Track 1 is only used by diesel trains since it does not have a third rail.^{[citation needed]}

References

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^ "Hudson River Railroad New Arrangement to Commence Monday, March 11, 1850". The Evening Post. March 9, 1850. p. 3. Retrieved June 20, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "About". irvingtonhistoricalsociety.org. Irvington Historical Society. March 8, 2021. Retrieved June 20, 2022.
^ ^a ^b METRO-NORTH 2018 WEEKDAY STATION BOARDINGS. Market Analysis/Fare Policy Group:OPERATIONS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS DEPARTMENT:Metro-North Railroad. April 2019. p. 6.
^ "NPS Focus". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. Archived from the original on July 25, 2008. Retrieved January 19, 2016.
^ Lockwood, Wolfert Ecker in Graff & Graff, p.35
^ "45-855 Railroads, The First Big Business: Topic 5 (Voteview)". Archived from the original on January 23, 2013. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
^ ^a ^b Turiano, John Bruno (August 2016). "Froyo to Melt For". Westchester Magazine. Archived from the original on August 13, 2016.
^ Historic District Application - Irvington
^ Scenic Hudson Park at Irvington
^ "Metro-North Railroad Track & Structures Department Track Charts Maintenance Program Interlocking Diagrams & Yard Diagrams 2015" (PDF). Metro-North Railroad. 2015. Retrieved January 28, 2019.

External links

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Media related to Irvington (Metro-North station) at Wikimedia Commons

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