Hartsdale station is a commuter rail stop on the

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's Harlem Line, serving the communities of

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and Scarsdale, New York.

History

The station building was originally built in 1915 (or 1914 according to the MTA) by the Warren and Wetmore architectural firm for the New York Central Railroad, as a replacement for a smaller wooden depot built by the

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originally known as "Hart's Corner Station." 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. As with most of the Harlem Line, the merger of New York Central with

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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.

Station layout

The station has two slightly offset high-level side platforms, each 12 cars long.

Public art

The station is the site of ''Workers'', a series of sculptures by

Tom Nussbaum Tom Nussbaum (born August 12, 1953 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American artist known for a variety of work including sculpture, drawings, paper cuts, prints, children’s books, animations, functional design objects, public art, and site ...

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.

In popular culture

The station was used in the third season of ''The Sinner'' as a stand in for the fictional Dorchester station.

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