Mount Vernon West | |||||||||||||
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 The two center tracks at Mount Vernon West station looking south | |||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||
| Location | 1 Mount Vernon Avenue Mount Vernon, New York | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°54′47″N73°51′01″W / 40.9130°N 73.8502°W /40.9130; -73.8502 | ||||||||||||
| Line | Harlem Line | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2island platforms | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Connections | Bee-Line Bus System 7, 26 | ||||||||||||
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| Parking | 221 spaces | ||||||||||||
| Accessible | yes | ||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 3 | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| Opened | 1914[2] | ||||||||||||
| Previous names | Mount Vernon (until June 18, 1973)[3] | ||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||
| 2018 | 1,765[1] (Metro-North) | ||||||||||||
| Rank | 36 of109[1] | ||||||||||||
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Mount Vernon West station is acommuter rail stop on theMetro-North Railroad'sHarlem Line, located inMount Vernon, New York. One train fromGrand Central Terminal terminates here in the PM Rush.
The Mount Vernon West station was originally built in the early 1840s by theNew York and Harlem Railroad along the median of what is today MacQuestor Parkway just south of Mount Vernon Avenue. The line was electrified and realigned in southern Mount Vernon by theNew York Central and Hudson River Railroad and commissioned the architectural firm ofWarren and Wetmore to build a new station along the realigned segment in 1914,[4] although the bridge over Mount Vernon Avenue was built in 1910. As with most NYCRR stations in Westchester County, the station became aPenn Central station once the NYC &Pennsylvania Railroads merged in 1968, and eventually became part of the MTA's Metro-North Railroad.
Penn Central changed the station name on June 18, 1973 to Mount Vernon West to prevent confusion with theMount Vernon station opened on theNew Haven Division.[3]
The station has two slightly offset high-levelisland platforms, each 12 cars long.[5]: 10 Its ticket office and waiting area are at the bottom level of theBank of New York building on Mount Vernon Avenue.
As of August 2006, daily commuter ridership was 1,172 and there are 221 parking spots.[6] The station house which is addressed at 156 South West Street and still bears the name New York Central Railroad on its façade,[7] is used primarily for retail, and tickets can be purchased from beneath the platforms.
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