Mount Kisco station

Mount Kisco station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line, located in Mount Kisco, New York, United States.

Mount Kisco
The old and new Mount Kisco stations as seen south from the NY 133 overpass.
General information
Location1 Kirby Plaza, Mount Kisco, New York
Coordinates41.2084°N 73.7296°W / 41.2084; -73.7296
Line(s)Harlem Line
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
ConnectionsBee-Line: 19
Construction
Parking641 spaces (10 motorcycle)
AccessibleYes
Other information
Fare zone6
History
OpenedJune 1, 1847[1][2]
Rebuilt1910
Electrified1984
700V (DC) third rail
Previous namesNew Castle[3]
Passengers
20181,445[4] (Metro-North)
Rank44 of 109[4]
Services
Preceding station Metro-North Railroad Following station
Chappaqua
toward Grand Central
 Harlem Line Bedford Hills
toward Southeast
Former services
Preceding station New York Central Railroad Following station
Chappaqua
toward New York
 Harlem Division Bedford Hills
toward Chatham

The station is located adjacent to downtown Mount Kisco. The old train station building still exists, but no longer serves the railroad. The other part is currently a café.

History
The clock at the Mount Kisco MNR Train Station.
The clock at the Mount Kisco station.

The New York and Harlem Railroad laid tracks through Mount Kisco during the 1840s, installing a station in the community as far back as February 1847.[5] The station was originally named "New Castle," for one of the two towns that Mount Kisco was originally part of, the other being the Town of Bedford. Long after being acquired by New York Central Railroad, the original passenger station was replaced by a second Richardson Romanesque-style depot in 1910. The station also contains two former freight houses, one of which is a wooden one from 1890, and is located at 105 Kisco Avenue[6][7] is used primarily as a storage facility for housing construction materials. The other is made of brick and located in the vicinity of the existing station house.[8]

In 1968, New York Central merged with Pennsylvania Railroad, thereby transforming the station into a Penn Central Railroad station, with a Newsstand operated by Louis Lombardo (b. 1925, d. 2009) & Anne Lombardo (b. 1927, d. 2018) from 1968 to 1979. However, Penn Central's financial troubles two years later forced them to turn all regional passenger operations over to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Penn Central Railroad ceased to exist on March 31, 1975 and Federal Government created Conrail took over operations on April 1, 1976, until President Ronald Reagan ordered them out of the passenger business in 1981. The MTA converted it into part of Metro-North Railroad on January 1, 1983. Metro-North rebuilt the station with a high level center platform, elevators and a pedestrian bridge in 1984, as part of their electrification project of the Harlem Line between North White Plains and Brewster North (now, Southeast), but mile-markers noting the distance between Grand Central Terminal and the former northern terminus of the line at Chatham Union Station remained trackside along the station house well into the early 21st Century.[9] The passenger station currently serves as an Italian restaurant, Locali. The two previous Restaurants that formerly occupied the station, The Flying Pig & Via Vanti!, have since gone out of business, while the brick freighthouse survives as a local pizzeria.[10] The ticket window (a former Manhattan Savings Bank Branch location) was closed in 2007 due to low usage. Tickets are now purchased through a ticket machine or on board the train. Several Peak Trains originate/terminate here.[11] Metered parking is available. Rate of 24 quarters for 12 hours.[12]

Station layout

The station has one eight-car-long high-level island platform serving trains in both directions.[13]: 12 

Notes
  1. Dana 1866, p. 216.
  2. "New York and Harlem Railroad ---- Winter Arrangement". The Evening Post. New York, New York. December 12, 1849. p. 4. Retrieved December 12, 2019 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  3. New York State Railroads: Passenger Stations and Stops
  4. METRO-NORTH 2018 WEEKDAY STATION BOARDINGS. Market Analysis/Fare Policy Group:OPERATIONS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS DEPARTMENT:Metro-North Railroad. April 2019. p. 6.
  5. Grogan, Louis V. (1989). The Coming of the New York and Harlem Railroad. Self-Published. p. 14. ISBN 0-962120-65-0.
  6. DanTD (June 24, 2016). File:Mount Kisco, NY; 1890 NYC Freight House-1.jpg (photograph). Retrieved August 9, 2016. {{cite AV media}}: External link in |people= (help)
  7. DanTD (June 24, 2016). File:Mount Kisco, NY; 1890 NYC Freight House-2.jpg (photograph). Retrieved August 9, 2016. {{cite AV media}}: External link in |people= (help)
  8. Existing Railway stations in Westchester County, New York
  9. Flickr Photo of Mount Kisco Station House by Doug Kerr
  10. Mario's Pizza and Pasta
  11. Abhinav Maurya Photo from June 2017 (Google Maps; Images of Mount Kisco Metro-North station)
  12. Chapter A112-Fees. §A112-101-Motor vehicles
  13. "Metro-North Railroad Track & Structures Department Track Charts Maintenance Program Interlocking Diagrams & Yard Diagrams 2015" (PDF). Metro-North Railroad. 2015. Retrieved January 28, 2019.

References
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