Kensico Cemetery station explained

Kensico Cemetery

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MNRR

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Harlem

Address:

273 Lakeview Avenue
Valhalla, NY, 10595

Coordinates:

41.0822°N -73.7843°W

Tracks:

Opened:

December 1891^[1]

Closed:

1983

Rebuilt:

1902

Other Services Header:

Former services

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yes

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Marker:	rail
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Kensico Cemetery station was a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line that served the nearby Kensico Cemetery, to the north of Lakeview Avenue. Located along the platform behind the buildings at Sharon Gardens,^[2] the station was similar to the still-existent and nearby Mount Pleasant station in which it served friends and family of those buried there instead of actual commuters.

By the late 1970s the low-level station saw only three trains a day on weekends, and was a flag stop for one train on weekdays.^[3] Upon the electrification of the Harlem Line between North White Plains and Brewster North in 1983, the station was closed^[4] given its redundancy to Mount Pleasant and the cost to modernize the station.

Notes and References

News: New Station on the New York Central . June 24, 2019 . . December 18, 1891 . 13. Newspapers.com.
Web site: Existing Railroad Stations of Westchester County, New York . February 9, 2015 . December 31, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191231120050/http://ny.existingstations.com/counties/Westchester.html . dead .
Harlem Line timetable effective October 30, 1977
Station no longer appears on timetable effective April 24, 1983