Hawthorne (Metro-North station)

Hawthorne
Location	398 Elwood Avenue Hawthorne, NY, 10532-2503
Coordinates	41°06′32″N 73°47′46″W / 41.1090°N 73.7960°WCoordinates: 41°06′32″N 73°47′46″W / 41.1090°N 73.7960°W
Line(s)	Harlem Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Bee-Line Bus System: 15
Construction
Parking	308 spaces
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	5
History
Electrified	1984 700V (DC) third rail
Previous names	Unionville (1847-1901)
Traffic
Passengers (2006)	186,160  0%
Services
Preceding station   Metro-North Railroad   Following station Mount Pleasant toward Grand Central Harlem Line Pleasantville toward Wassaic Thornwood (closed 1984) toward Wassaic   Former services   New York Central Railroad Mount Pleasant toward New York City Harlem Division Thornwood toward Chatham

The Hawthorne Metro-North Railroad station serves the residents of Hawthorne, New York, via the Harlem Line. Trains leave or arrive approximately every 20 minutes during peak periods, hourly otherwise. It is 28.2 miles (45 km) from Grand Central Terminal and the average travel time to Grand Central is 44 minutes.

This station is located in the Zone 5 Metro-North fare zone.

History

Rail service in Hawthorne can be traced as far back as 1847, when the New York and Harlem Railroad built a line and a railroad station with the name "Unionville", the former name of Hawthorne itself. The railroad and the station became part of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1864 and was eventually taken over by the New York Central Railroad. By the early 20th century, when Rose Hawthorne Lathrop established a home for victims of incurable cancer, the community and the station were renamed "Hawthorne". 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. At some point, the station was remodeled and moved about 100-foot (30 m) from its original location.^[1]

Platform and track configuration

2	■ Harlem Line	for Grand Central
1	■ Harlem Line	for Wassaic

This station has one eight-car-long high-level island platform serving trains in both directions. The Harlem Line has two tracks at this location.

References

1. Existing Railroad Stations in Westchester County, New York

External links

• Metro-North Railroad - Hawthorne
• List of upcoming train departure times and track assignments from MTA
• Station from Google Maps Street View