Irvington station is a

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stop on the

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's Hudson Line, located in

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History

The

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reached the settlement by 1849; the first passengers on a regularly scheduled run through the village paid fifty cents to travel from

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to Chambers Street in

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on September 29, 1849. The community was in the process of renaming itself after author

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, 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. The HRR was acquired by the

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in 1869, and the

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in 1913. The existing station house was built in 1889 and designed by the Shepley, 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 the

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in 1968. Bankruptcy of the company followed by 1970, and Penn Central eventually turned passenger service over to the Metropolitan 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, has been a contributing property of the Irvington Historic District since January 15, 2014. Since being retired as a ticket office in 1957, it has been utilized as an art and curio shop, an office for the

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lumber yard which was located on the other side of the tracks – now Scenic Hudson Park – and the office of an architectural firm. In 2016, with the addition of an outdoor garden, it was converted into a 20-seat café serving

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Station layout

The station has two slightly offset high-level

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s each eight cars long.

References

External links

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Irvington Metro-North Station (The Subway Nut)

Entrance from Google Maps Street View
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