Hartsdale station

Hartsdale
Hartsdale station as seen from East Hartsdale Avenue
General information
Location1 East Hartsdale Avenue
Hartsdale, New York
Line(s)Harlem Line
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsBee-Line Bus System: 34, 38, 39
Construction
Parking797 spaces
AccessibleYes
Other information
Fare zone4
History
OpenedDecember 1, 1844[1][2]
Rebuilt1915 (NYC)[3]
Previous namesHart's Corner
Passengers
20183,022[4] (Metro-North)
Rank17 of 109[4]
Services
Preceding station Metro-North Railroad Following station
Scarsdale
toward Grand Central
 Harlem Line White Plains
toward North White Plains
Former services
Preceding station New York Central Railroad Following station
Scarsdale
toward New York
 Harlem Division White Plains
toward Chatham
Hartsdale Railroad Station
LocationHartsdale, New York, USA
Coordinates41°0′40″N 73°47′45″W / 41.01111°N 73.79583°W / 41.01111; -73.79583
ArchitectWarren and Wetmore[6]
Architectural styleTudor Revival
NRHP reference No.11000453[5]
Added to NRHPJuly 14, 2011
Location
Map

Hartsdale station is a commuter rail station on the Metro-North Railroad Harlem Line, located in the Hartsdale hamlet of Greenburgh, New York.

Station layout

The station has two slightly offset high-level side platforms, each 12 cars long.[7]: 11  The station is the site of Workers, a series of sculptures by Tom Nussbaum portraying silhouettes of railroad workers and commuters. The sculptures are rendered in COR-TEN® steel and placed between the northbound and southbound tracks. Additional monumentally-scaled human figures made of iron are situated in the track bed.[8]

History

Hartsdale station in 1988

The station building was originally built in 1915 (or 1914 according to the MTA[9]) by the Warren and Wetmore architectural firm for the New York Central Railroad, as a replacement for a smaller wooden depot built by the New York and Harlem Railroad originally known as "Hart's Corner Station."[10] Unlike most Warren & Wetmore-built NYC stations, which were grand cathedral-like structures using Beaux-Arts architecture, the station in particular was strictly of the Tudor Revival style. The station was named after the valley owned by the Harts.[11]: 28 

As with most of the Harlem Line, the merger of New York Central with Pennsylvania Railroad in 1968 transformed the station into a Penn Central Railroad station. Penn Central's continuous financial despair throughout the 1970s forced them to turn over their commuter service to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority which made it part of Metro-North in 1983. In 2011, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[5] The station was used in the third season of The Sinner as a stand in for the fictional Dorchester station.[12]

A renovation for accessibility, which added a footbridge with elevators connecting to the existing footbridge, was completed in January 2024.[13]

See also

References

  1. ^ Dunbar, Seymour (1915). A History of Travel in America: Being an Outline of the Development in Modes of Travel from Archaic Vehicles of Colonial Times to the Completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad: the Influence of the Indians on the Free Movement and Territorial Unity of the White Race: the Part Played by Travel Methods in the Economic Conquest of the Continent: and Those Related Human Experiences, Changing Social Conditions and Governmental Attitudes which Accompanied the Growth of a National Travel System · Volume 3. Indianapolis, Indiana: Bobbs-Merrill Company. p. 984. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
  2. ^ Carman, W.S. (December 13, 1844). "New York and Harlem Railroad Company Winter Arrangements". The New York Daily Herald. p. 3. Retrieved May 26, 2020 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  3. ^ "Existing Railroad Stations in Westchester County, New York". Archived from the original on December 31, 2019. Retrieved September 24, 2010.
  4. ^ a b METRO-NORTH 2018 WEEKDAY STATION BOARDINGS. Market Analysis/Fare Policy Group:OPERATIONS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS DEPARTMENT:Metro-North Railroad. April 2019. p. 6.
  5. ^ a b "National Register of Historic Places listings for July 22, 2011". National Park Service. July 22, 2011. Retrieved July 25, 2011.
  6. ^ Dolkart, Andrew S.; Dierickx, Mary (September 1988). "Hartsdale Railroad Station" (PDF). Historic American Buildings Survey. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 10, 2014. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
  7. ^ "Metro-North Railroad Track & Structures Department Track Charts Maintenance Program Interlocking Diagrams & Yard Diagrams 2015" (PDF). Metro-North Railroad. 2015. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
  8. ^ "MTA Arts & Design". mta.info. Retrieved June 5, 2020.
  9. ^ "Metro-North Railroad's Hartsdale Station Building Is Listed on the National Register of Historic Places" (Press release). MTA. August 15, 2011.
  10. ^ 1858 New York and Harlem Railroad Map (I Ride the Harlem Line)
  11. ^ Hyatt, Elijah Clarence (1898). History of the New York & Harlem Railroad. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
  12. ^ Muchnick, Jeanne (September 26, 2019). "USA Network series 'The Sinner' films in Hartsdale". The Journal News. Retrieved May 23, 2020.
  13. ^ "MTA Announces Metro-North Hartsdale Station Now Fully Accessible" (Press release). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. January 5, 2024.