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Service Began Service Ended Status New York City: Liberty Street [23] [24] [25] N/A location filled as part of Battery Park City Service provided by NY Waterway at BPC Ferry Terminal: West 23rd Street [25] [26] N/A Pier 63 at Hudson River Park: North River (Hudson River) Jersey City: Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal [23] [24] [25] [27] 7 ...
The current station was built in 1896–97 and designed by Morgan O'Brien, New York Central and Hudson River Railroad principal architect. It replaced an earlier one that was built in 1874 when the New York Central and the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, the ancestors of today's Metro-North, moved the tracks from an open cut to the present-day elevated viaduct.
Between the Glenwood station and the Hudson River lies the abandoned Yonkers Power Station of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad, a massive building which was constructed in 1907 [3] to hold electrical generators to provide power for the electrification of the railroad.
Service at the new station began in December 1938 despite being unfinished. [16] Transfer station for Newark and for trains running on the (Perth Amboy & Elizabethport Branch). Spring Street 1869 [17] April 30, 1967 [2] Elizabeth: 1839 [17] August 6, 1978 [10] The station was a point of transfer between Elizabeth station on the Pennsylvania ...
The current station building was built in 1911 for the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad (NYC) in the Beaux-Arts style. The architects were Warren and Wetmore, one of the firms responsible for Grand Central Terminal. It was meant to be a smaller version of Grand Central; Guastavino tiles are featured prominently in both stations.
The first rail crossing of the Hudson was the Poughkeepsie Bridge built in 1888. The New York Central crossed just south of Albany, New York, where it continued west paralleling the Erie Canal to create the Water Level Route which competed with the Pennsylvania Railroad's more direct route that had to cross the Allegany Mountains. Even though ...
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The former station building, 2014 Interior of the building. Rail service in Peekskill began on September 29, 1849 with the Hudson River Railroad. [1] The freight depot was the site of a February 19, 1861 visit by Abraham Lincoln who stopped there during his train trip to his inauguration.