Irvington (Metro-North station)

Irvington

Looking south along the tracks from the east platform. Temporary platform in place opposite during summer 2007 renovations.
Location 1 Astor Street
Irvington, NY, 10533-1616
Coordinates 41°02′22″N 73°52′24″W / 41.0395°N 73.8733°W / 41.0395; -73.8733Coordinates: 41°02′22″N 73°52′24″W / 41.0395°N 73.8733°W / 41.0395; -73.8733
Line(s)
  Hudson Line
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 4
Construction
Parking 283 Spaces
Other information
Fare zone 4
Electrified 700V (DC) third rail
Services
Preceding station   Metro-North Railroad   Following station
Hudson Line
toward Poughkeepsie
  Former services  
New York Central Railroad
toward Peekskill
Hudson Division
Official name Irvington New York Central Railroad Station
Designated January 15, 2014
Part of Irvington Historic District (New York)
Reference no. 13001095[1]
Architectural style Richardson Romanesque

The Irvington Metro-North Railroad station serves residents of Irvington, New York via the Hudson Line. Trains leave for New York City every 25 to 35 minutes on weekdays. It is 21.9 miles from Grand Central Terminal and travel time to Grand Central is about 51 minutes on local trains and 36 to 42 minutes on express/semi-express trains.

History

The old NYC station house as seen from the GCT-bound platform, now a frozen yogurt shop.

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.[2] 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.[3] 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,[4] has been a contributing property of the Irvington Historic District since January 15, 2014.[5] 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[6] – 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.[4]

Recent events

In June 2016, Irvington Fire Chief Christopher D. DePaoli was one of 23 recipients of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission medal for heroism. In April 2015, DePaoli stepped in when he saw a woman being attacked by a man with a knife on the station platform. DePaoli was able get between the man and the woman, the man's girlfriend, who was on the ground being stabbed, and distract him with a baseball bat until the police arrived. The man was arrested and the woman survived the attack.[7]

Platforms and tracks

4 ■ Hudson Line for Grand Central
2 ■ Hudson Line no stop
■ Empire Service no stop
1 ■ Hudson Line no stop
■ Empire Service no stop
3 ■ Hudson Line for Poughkeepsie

This station has two offset high-level side platforms each eight cars long. The west platform next to Track 4 is generally used by southbound trains. The east platform next to Track 3 is generally used by northbound trains.

The Hudson Line has four tracks; the two inner tracks not next to either platform are used by express trains. Only one of the express tracks is powered; the other one is non-powered.

References

  1. ↑ "NPS Focus". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. Retrieved January 19, 2016.
  2. ↑ Lockwood, Wolfert Ecker in Graff & Graff, p.35
  3. ↑ 45-855 Railroads, The First Big Business: Topic 5 (Voteview)
  4. 1 2 Turiano, John Bruno (August 2016) "Froyo to Melt For" Westchester Magazine''
  5. ↑ Historic District Application - Irvington
  6. ↑ Scenic Hudson Park at Irvington
  7. ↑ Rom, Gabriel. "Irvington fire chief gets national heroism award" Journal News" (June 30, 2016)
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