Kensico Cemetery station

Kensico Cemetery station was a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line that served the nearby Kensico Cemetery, to the north of Lakeview Avenue. Located along the platform behind the buildings at Sharon Gardens,[2] the station was similar to the still-existent and nearby Mount Pleasant station in which it served friends and family of those buried there instead of actual commuters.

Kensico Cemetery
1893 image of the former Kensico Cemetery station
General information
Location273 Lakeview Avenue
Valhalla, NY, 10595
Coordinates41°04′55.9″N 73°47′03.6″W
Line(s)Harlem Line
Tracks2
History
OpenedDecember 1891[1]
Closed1983
Rebuilt1902
Former services
Preceding station Metro-North Railroad Following station
Valhalla
toward Grand Central
 Harlem Line
limited service
 Mount Pleasant
toward Wassaic
Preceding station New York Central Railroad Following station
Valhalla
toward New York
 Harlem Division Mount Pleasant
toward Chatham

By the late 1970s the low-level station saw only three trains a day on weekends, and was a flag stop for one train on weekdays.[3] Upon the electrification of the Harlem Line between North White Plains and Brewster North in 1983, the station was closed[4] given its redundancy to Mount Pleasant and the cost to modernize the station.

References
  1. "New Station on the New York Central". Buffalo Evening News. December 18, 1891. p. 13. Retrieved June 24, 2019 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  2. "Existing Railroad Stations of Westchester County, New York". Archived from the original on December 31, 2019. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
  3. Harlem Line timetable effective October 30, 1977
  4. Station no longer appears on timetable effective April 24, 1983
2009 image of the low-level platform next to the Grand Central-bound tracks


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