Ardsley-on-Hudson | |||||||||||
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 View looking northbound from east platform; theTappan Zee Bridge is visible beyond the station. | |||||||||||
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| Location | 1 Ardsley Avenue,Irvington, New York | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°01′37″N73°52′37″W / 41.0270°N 73.8769°W /41.0270; -73.8769 | ||||||||||
| Line | Hudson Line | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||||||||
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| Accessible | yes | ||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 4 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | ca. 1896 | ||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 2006–07 | ||||||||||
| Electrified | 700V (DC)third rail | ||||||||||
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| 2018 | 587[1] (Metro-North) | ||||||||||
| Rank | 69 of109[1] | ||||||||||
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Ardsley-on-Hudson station is acommuter rail stop on theMetro-North Railroad'sHudson Line, located in the Ardsley Park area ofIrvington, New York. It serves both the neighborhood and the northern part of the village ofDobbs Ferry; the main campus ofMercy University is within walking distance of the station.
As of August 2006, daily commuter ridership was 420 and there were 134 parking spots.[2]
The station was originally part of the Ardsley Casino Clubhouse, a country club created through the support of some of the most notable and successful men in the US includingJay Gould,Cornelius Vanderbilt (New York Central entrepreneur) andJohn Pierpont Morgan. The Casino was built overlooking the Hudson River and besides the station, had a private dock to accommodate the yachts of members. The Ardsley Racquet and Swim Club, an offshoot established in 1927, inherited the property in 1935, and the casino was closed in 1936.[3] The site was replaced by the Hudson House Apartments. Even with all the changes, the original mid-1890s New York Central Railroad depot remained intact. As with many stations along the Hudson Division, the New York Central merged with thePennsylvania Railroad in 1968 to formPenn Central Railroad. The 1970 bankruptcy of Penn Central forced it to turn service over to the MTA, which continued through the time it was taken over byConrail in 1976, and then byMetro-North Railroad in 1983. While there is no official station house, Metro-North does maintain a small two-story brick depot, housing the northbound waiting room, ticket machines, and the United States Post Office forZIP Code 10503.
The crossover ramp to southbound orNew York City-bound trains was inside the depot until 2006, when Metro-North razed the ramp and built one a few steps to the south, with a higher clearance for projected double-deck trains. At that time new, longer platforms were installed on both sides of the tracks.[4] On February 1, 2010, a sanitation truck smashed into the historic pedestrian bridge leading from the station house to the Hudson House Apartments.[5] The bridge was never rebuilt.
In December 2017, the Village Board of Irvington, which has jurisdiction over the station, passed local legislation which expanded the types of business which would be allowed to be situated in the station's building, while still prohibiting fast-food restaurants, drive-through type businesses and businesses which produced "odor, dust, noise, smoke, gas, fumes or radiation".[6]
The station has two slightly offset high-levelside platforms each eight cars long. Only one of the express tracks, specifically Track 2 is powered by third rail.[7]: 3
The station was used as a location for the 2002 filmUnfaithful, starringRichard Gere andDiane Lane. It also figured in the setting of the 1984 filmFalling in Love.[8]Emily Blunt's character Rachel takes the train out of Ardsley-on-Hudson in the 2016 filmThe Girl on the Train.
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