Irvington | |||||||||||
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 Looking south along the tracks from the east platform. Temporary platform in place opposite during summer 2007 renovations. | |||||||||||
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| Location | 1 Astor Street,Irvington, New York | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°02′22″N73°52′24″W / 41.0395°N 73.8733°W /41.0395; -73.8733 | ||||||||||
| Line | Hudson Line | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||
| Parking | 283 spaces | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 4 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 1849 | ||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1899 | ||||||||||
| Electrified | 700V (DC)third rail | ||||||||||
| Previous names | Dearman (1849–1854)[2][3] | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| 2018 | 1,222[1] (Metro-North) | ||||||||||
| Rank | 49 of109[1] | ||||||||||
| Services | |||||||||||
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| Official name | Irvington New York Central Railroad Station | ||||||||||
| Designated | January 15, 2014 | ||||||||||
| Part of | Irvington Historic District (New York) | ||||||||||
| Reference no. | 13001095[4] | ||||||||||
| Architectural style | Richardson Romanesque | ||||||||||
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Irvington station is acommuter rail stop on theMetro-North Railroad'sHudson Line, located inIrvington, New York.
TheHudson River Railroad reached the settlement by 1849; the first passengers on a regularly scheduled run through the village paid fifty cents to travel fromPeekskill toChambers Street inManhattan on September 29, 1849.[5] The community was in the process of renaming itself after authorWashington 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.[6] The HRR was acquired by theNew York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1869, and theNew York Central Railroad in 1913.
The existing station house was built in 1889 and designed by theShepley, 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 thePennsylvania Railroad in 1968. Bankruptcy of the company followed by 1970, and Penn Central eventually turned passenger service over to theMetropolitan 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,[7] has been a contributing property of theIrvington Historic District since January 15, 2014.[8] Since being retired as a ticket office in 1957, it has been utilized as an art and curio shop, an office for theWeyerhauser lumber yard which was located on the other side of the tracks – now Scenic Hudson Park[9] – and the office of an architectural firm. In 2016, with the addition of an outdoor garden, it was converted into a 20-seat café servingfrozen yogurt.[7]
The station has two slightly offset high-levelside platforms each eight cars long.[10]: 3
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