Glenwood station is a

commuter rail Commuter rail, or suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates within a metropolitan area, connecting commuters to a central city from adjacent suburbs or commuter towns. Generally commuter rail systems are con ...

stop on the

Metro-North Railroad Metro-North Railroad , trading as MTA Metro-North Railroad, is a suburban commuter rail service run by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), a New York State public benefit corporations, public authority of the U.S. state of New Yor ...

's Hudson Line, located in the Glenwood neighborhood of

Yonkers, New York Yonkers () is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States. Developed along the Hudson River, it is the third most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City and Buffalo. The population of Yonkers was 211,569 as enu ...

Station layout

The station has two slightly offset high-level

side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms ...

s each able to accommodate eight cars.

Abandoned power plant

Between the Glenwood station and the

Hudson River The Hudson River is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York. It originates in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York and flows southward through the Hudson Valley to the New York Harbor between N ...

lies the abandoned Yonkers Power Station of the

New York Central & Hudson River Railroad The New York Central Railroad was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The railroad primarily connected greater New York and Boston in the east with Chicago and St. Louis in the Mid ...

, a massive building which was constructed in 1907 to hold electrical generators to provide power for the electrification of the railroad. In 2008 the

Preservation League of New York State The Preservation League of New York State (Preserve NYS) is a nonprofit organization which works to preserve historic structures in New York. Established in 1974, Preserve NYS supports preservation efforts through information on best practices, pr ...

named the plant as one of the seven most endangered sites in the state, and in 2013 the building began to be renovated into the "PowerHouse", an "arts-focused event complex with eventual plans for restaurants, a hotel and a marina." Phase One of the conversion is expected to finish in 2016 at the cost of $70 million, while Phase Two, which includes the restaurant, hotel and marina, is expected to cost $80 million, and could take up to ten years to complete. File:Glenwood power plant 2.jpg, Abandoned Yonkers Power Station File:Glenwood on September 2nd, 2018.png, Glenwood from the southwest File:Glenwood Power Plant on September 2nd, 2018.png, Glenwood from the northwest

References

External links

Entrance from Google Maps Street View
{{DEFAULTSORT:Glenwood (Metro-North Station) Former New York Central Railroad stations Metro-North Railroad stations in New York (state) Transportation in Yonkers, New York Railway stations in Westchester County, New York