Mount Kisco | |||||||||||
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 The old and new Mount Kisco stations as seen south from theNY 133 overpass. | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | 1 Kirby Plaza,Mount Kisco, New York | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°12′30″N73°43′47″W / 41.2084°N 73.7296°W /41.2084; -73.7296 | ||||||||||
| Line | Harlem Line | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Connections | Bee-Line: 19 | ||||||||||
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| Parking | 641 spaces (10 motorcycle) | ||||||||||
| Accessible | yes | ||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 6 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | June 1, 1847[2][3] | ||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1910 | ||||||||||
| Electrified | 1984 700V (DC)third rail | ||||||||||
| Previous names | New Castle[4] | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| 2018 | 1,445[1] (Metro-North) | ||||||||||
| Rank | 44 of109[1] | ||||||||||
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Mount Kisco station is acommuter rail stop on theMetro-North Railroad'sHarlem Line, located inMount Kisco,New York, United States.
The station is located adjacent to downtown Mount Kisco. The old train station building still exists, but no longer serves the railroad. The other part is currently a restaurant.
TheNew York and Harlem Railroad laid tracks through Mount Kisco during the 1840s, installing a station in the community as far back as February 1847.[5] The station was originally named "New Castle," for one of the two towns that Mount Kisco was originally part of, the other being the Town of Bedford. Long after being acquired byNew York Central Railroad, the original passenger station was replaced by a secondRichardson Romanesque-style depot in 1910. The station also contains two former freight houses, one of which is a wooden one from 1890, and is located at 105 Kisco Avenue[6][7] is used primarily as a storage facility for housing construction materials. The other is made of brick and located in the vicinity of the existing station house.[8]
In 1968, New York Central merged withPennsylvania Railroad, thereby transforming the station into aPenn Central Railroad station, with a Newsstand operated by Louis Lombardo (b. 1925, d. 2009) & Anne Lombardo (b. 1927, d. 2018) from 1968 to 1979. However, Penn Central's financial troubles two years later forced them to turn all regional passenger operations over to theMetropolitan Transportation Authority. Penn Central Railroad ceased to exist on March 31, 1976 and Federal Government createdConrail took over operations on April 1, 1976, until President Ronald Reagan ordered them out of the passenger business in 1981. The MTA converted it into part ofMetro-North Railroad on January 1, 1983. Metro-North rebuilt the station with a high level center platform, elevators and a pedestrian bridge in 1984, as part of their electrification project of the Harlem Line betweenNorth White Plains andBrewster North (now, Southeast), but mile-markers noting the distance betweenGrand Central Terminal and the former northern terminus of the line atChatham Union Station remained trackside along the station house well into the early 21st Century.[9] The passenger station currently serves as an Italian restaurant, Locali. The two previous Restaurants that formerly occupied the station, The Flying Pig & Via Vanti!, have since gone out of business, while the brick freighthouse survives as a local pizzeria.[10] The ticket window (a former Manhattan Savings Bank Branch location) was closed in 2007 due to low usage. Tickets are now purchased through a ticket machine or on board the train. Several Peak Trains originate/terminate here.[11] Metered parking is available at a rate of $6 for 12 hours.[12]
The station has one eight-car-long high-levelisland platform serving trains in both directions.[13]: 12
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