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| Location | Commerce Street and Franklin Avenue Thornwood, New York | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°07′16″N73°46′56″W / 41.1211°N 73.7822°W /41.1211; -73.7822 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Thornwood-Hawthorne Chamber of Commerce | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Line | Harlem Line | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | c.1891 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Closed | March 5, 1984[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Previous names | Sherman Park (c. 1891–1914)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Thornwood station was a stop on theMetro-North Railroad'sHarlem Line, serving the hamlet ofMount Pleasant, New York until its closure in 1984.[3] During its existence, the station was one of the least used on the Harlem Line. Prior to its closure, it had only half the weekday service of the neighboringHawthorne andPleasantville stations, and was merely aflag stop for four trains on weekends.[4]
TheNew York and Harlem Railroad laid tracks through what would later become the Village of Sherman Park during the 1840s. The community of Sherman Park was built around the tracks in 1891, and theNew York Central and Hudson River Railroad station was soon established there. The village was dissolved in 1914 and renamed "Thornwood," and the station was renamed as such.[5] Sometime during the late-1950s[when?] the formerRichardson Romanesque depot was replaced with a simple brick structure.
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, Thornwood was not upgraded due to sharp track curvature and low ridership precluding such upgrades, and as such was closed on March 4, 1984. At the time of closing, what few customers the station had were directed to usePleasantville (1 mile north) as a replacement. The former station house, which is located whereNew York State Route 141 moves from Commerce Street to Franklin Avenue is now occupied by the Thornwood-Hawthorne Chamber of Commerce, which was established the year after the station was closed.[6]
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