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| Location | 400 Manville Road,Pleasantville, New York | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°08′05″N73°47′32″W / 41.1348°N 73.7923°W /41.1348; -73.7923 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line | Harlem Line | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1island platform | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Connections | Bee-Line: 6, 15, 19 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Parking | 263 spaces | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accessible | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | October 1846[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1905, 1959 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | 1984 700V (DC)third rail | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2018 | 1,348[1] (Metro-North) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | 46 of109[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pleasantville station is acommuter rail stop on theMetro-North Railroad'sHarlem Line, located inPleasantville, New York. There is also bus service to the station fromPace University.
TheNew York and Harlem Railroad laid tracks through Pleasantville during the 1840s. Evidence of the existence of Pleasantville station can be found as far back as October 1846.[3]: 14 The existing station house was built by theNew York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1905.[4] The station also had freight sidings for the shipping department of the headquarters ofReader's Digest.[3]: 106 On December 20, 1956, New York State opened up bids for the elimination of severalgrade crossings in Pleasantville, though the project was originally planned by New York Central 25 years earlier. The project was expected to cost $3.857 million. The tracks were lowered for 7,000 feet (2,100 m), new bridges were built over the railroad for Manville and Bedford Roads (current and formerNY 117 respectively), and the station house was moved.[5] The project was finished by 1959.
As with most of the Harlem Line, the merger of New York Central withPennsylvania Railroad in 1968 transformed the station into aPenn Central Railroad station. Penn Central's continuous financial despair throughout the 1970s forced them to turn over their commuter service to theMetropolitan Transportation Authority which made it part of Metro-North in 1983. When the Harlem Line was electrified betweenNorth White Plains andBrewster North in 1984, less reconstruction was required at Pleasantville than with other stations.
Pleasantville is still a functioning station on the Harlem Line. The area is home to bus stops of multiple routes. Along with this, there are two manual ticket counters located on the platform and there is no customer service at this location.[6] There are multiple entrances to the platforms including elevators. With the station being 31 miles north ofManhattan, it is about a 50-minute trip fromGrand Central Terminal to Pleasantville.[7]
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The station has one six-car-long high-levelisland platform serving trains in both directions.[8]: 12
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