Pleasantville station
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| Location | 400 Manville Road, Pleasantville, New York | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°08′05″N 73°47′32″W / 41.1348°N 73.7923°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Harlem Line | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Connections | Bee-Line: 6, 15, 19 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Parking | 263 spaces | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | October 1846[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1905, 1959 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | 1984 700V (DC) third rail | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2007 | 311,845  0% | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Pleasantville station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line, located in Pleasantville, New York. Trains leave or arrive approximately every 20 minutes during peak periods, hourly otherwise. It is 30.5 miles (49.1 km) from Grand Central Terminal and travel time there is approximately 49 minutes. There is also bus service to the station from Pace University.
This station is located in the Zone 5 Metro-North fare zone.
History
The New York and Harlem Railroad laid tracks through Pleasantville during the 1840s. Evidence of the existence of Pleasantville station can be found as far back as October 1846.[2]: 14 The existing station house was built by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1905.[3] The station also had freight sidings for the shipping department of the headquarters of Reader's Digest.[2]: 106 On December 20, 1956, New York State opened up bids for the elimination of several grade crossings in Pleasantville, though the project was originally planned by New York Central 25 years earlier. The project was expected to cost $3.857 million. The tracks were lowered for 7,000 feet (2,100 m), new bridges were built over the railroad for Manville and Bedford Roads (current and former NY 117 respectively), and the station house was moved.[4] The project was finished by 1959. 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. When the Harlem Line was electrified between North White Plains and Brewster North in 1984, less reconstruction was required at Pleasantville than with other stations.
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Station layout
This station has one six-car-long high-level island platform serving trains in both directions.[5]: 12
| M | Mezzanine | Exit/entrance and parking |
| P Platform level |
Track 2 | ← Harlem Line toward Grand Central (Hawthorne) |
Island platform, doors will open on the left or right 
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| Track 1 | Harlem Line toward Southeast (Chappaqua) → | |
Bibliography
- Hyatt, Elijah Clarence (1898). History of the New York & Harlem Railroad. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
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References
- ^ Hyatt 1898, p. 14.
- ^ a b Grogan, Louis V. (1989). The Coming of the New York and Harlem Railroad. Self-Published. ISBN 0-962120-65-0.
- ^ "Existing Railway stations in Westchester County, New York". Archived from the original on 2019-12-31. Retrieved 2014-07-09.
- ^ "WESTCHESTER SET FOR TWO BIG JOBS; State Opens Bids Dec.20 for Pleasantville Crossing and New Expressway Work". The New York Times. November 24, 1956. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 23, 2017.
- ^ "Metro-North Railroad Track & Structures Department Track Charts Maintenance Program Interlocking Diagrams & Yard Diagrams 2015" (PDF). Metro-North Railroad. 2015. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
External links
Media related to Pleasantville (Metro-North station) at Wikimedia Commons
- Metro-North station page for Pleasantville
- List of upcoming Metro-North train departure times and track assignments from MTA
- List of upcoming train departure times and track assignments from MTA
- Pleasantville Metro-North Station (The SubwayNut)
- Former Pleasantville New York Central Railroad Depot image (Dynamic Depot Maps)
- Bedford Road entrance from Google Maps Street View
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