Hartsdale station explained

Hartsdale
Style:MNRR
Style2:Harlem
Address:1 East Hartsdale Avenue
Borough:Hartsdale, New York
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Line:none
Marker:rail
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Zoom:14
Line:Harlem Line
Other:Bee-Line Bus System

34, 38, 39

Platform:2 side platforms
Tracks:2
Parking:797 spaces
Opened:December 1, 1844[1] [2]
Rebuilt:1915 (NYC)[3]
Accessible:yes
Zone:4
Former:Hart's Corner
Other Services Header:Former services
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Hartsdale Railroad Station
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Location:Hartsdale, New York, USA
Coordinates:41.0111°N -73.7958°W
Architect:Warren and Wetmore[4]
Architecture:Tudor Revival
Added:July 14, 2011
Refnum:11000453

Hartsdale station is a commuter rail station on the Metro-North Railroad Harlem Line, located in the Hartsdale hamlet of Greenburgh, New York.

Station layout

The station has two slightly offset high-level side platforms, each 12 cars long.[5] The station is the site of Workers, a series of sculptures by Tom Nussbaum portraying silhouettes of railroad workers and commuters. The sculptures are rendered in COR-TEN® steel and placed between the northbound and southbound tracks. Additional monumentally-scaled human figures made of iron are situated in the track bed.[6]

History

The station building was originally built in 1915 (or 1914 according to the MTA[7]) by the Warren and Wetmore architectural firm for the New York Central Railroad, as a replacement for a smaller wooden depot built by the New York and Harlem Railroad originally known as "Hart's Corner Station."[8] Unlike most Warren & Wetmore-built NYC stations, which were grand cathedral-like structures using Beaux-Arts architecture, the station in particular was strictly of the Tudor Revival style. The station was named after the valley owned by the Harts.[9]

As with most of the Harlem Line, the merger of New York Central with Pennsylvania Railroad in 1968 transformed the station into a Penn Central Railroad station. Penn Central's continuous financial despair throughout the 1970s forced them to turn over their commuter service to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority which made it part of Metro-North in 1983. In 2011, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[10] The station was used in the third season of The Sinner as a stand in for the fictional Dorchester station.[11]

A renovation for accessibility, which added a footbridge with elevators connecting to the existing footbridge, was completed in January 2024.[12]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Dunbar . Seymour . A History of Travel in America: Being an Outline of the Development in Modes of Travel from Archaic Vehicles of Colonial Times to the Completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad: the Influence of the Indians on the Free Movement and Territorial Unity of the White Race: the Part Played by Travel Methods in the Economic Conquest of the Continent: and Those Related Human Experiences, Changing Social Conditions and Governmental Attitudes which Accompanied the Growth of a National Travel System · Volume 3 . 1915 . Bobbs-Merrill Company . . May 24, 2020 . 984.
  2. News: Carman . W.S. . New York and Harlem Railroad Company Winter Arrangements . May 26, 2020 . The New York Daily Herald . December 13, 1844 . 3. Newspapers.com.
  3. Web site: Existing Railroad Stations in Westchester County, New York . September 24, 2010 . December 31, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191231120050/http://ny.existingstations.com/counties/Westchester.html . dead .
  4. Web site: Hartsdale Railroad Station . Dolkart . Andrew S. . Dierickx . Mary . September 1988 . . Library of Congress . Washington, D.C. . 2 . March 9, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140310064432/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/ny/ny1500/ny1579/data/ny1579data.pdf . March 10, 2014 .
  5. Web site: Metro-North Railroad Track & Structures Department Track Charts Maintenance Program Interlocking Diagrams & Yard Diagrams 2015. 2015. Metro-North Railroad. January 28, 2019.
  6. Web site: MTA Arts & Design. mta.info. June 5, 2020.
  7. Metro-North Railroad's Hartsdale Station Building Is Listed on the National Register of Historic Places . MTA . August 15, 2011.
  8. http://www.iridetheharlemline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/1858_nyharlem_map.jpg 1858 New York and Harlem Railroad Map (I Ride the Harlem Line)
  9. Book: Hyatt, Elijah Clarence. History of the New York & Harlem Railroad. 1898. June 21, 2017.
  10. Web site: National Register of Historic Places listings for July 22, 2011. National Park Service. July 22, 2011. July 25, 2011.
  11. News: USA Network series 'The Sinner' films in Hartsdale. Muchnick. Jeanne. September 26, 2019. The Journal News. May 23, 2020.
  12. MTA Announces Metro-North Hartsdale Station Now Fully Accessible . Metropolitan Transportation Authority . January 5, 2024.

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