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Peekskill station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line, located in Peekskill, New York. The former station building built by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1874 [3] still stands, although it is no longer staffed. [4]
Before the Great Recession in 2009, the Farley Post Office was the only New York City post office that was open 24/7, [67] but as a result of the recession, its windows started closing at 10:00 p.m. [68] [69] During the 2010s, the event venue operator Skylight Group used the Farley Building as an event venue.
The New York Central Railroad (reporting mark NYC) 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 Midwest, along with the intermediate cities of Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Rochester and Syracuse.
The viaduct and new station opened in February 1897. [5] On April 24, 1906, the New York Central applied to the New York State Board of Railroad Commissioners for permission to discontinue service at the 110th Street station. The Board granted the Central permission on May 9 to close the station on June 1. [6] [7] [8] However, it closed on June ...
The City Hall Post Office and Courthouse was designed by architect Alfred B. Mullett for a triangular site in New York City along Broadway in Civic Center, Lower Manhattan, in City Hall Park south of New York City Hall. The Second Empire style building, erected between 1869 and 1880, was not well received. Commonly called "Mullett's Monstrosity ...
Alfonso E. Lenhardt (born October 29, 1943) [1] [2] is a retired United States Army Major General who represented the United States as Ambassador to Tanzania from 2009 to 2013. He was also accredited as the US representative to the East African Community (EAC) in 2010. [3]
Similar facilities are in use between 65th Street Yard in Brooklyn and Greenville Yard in Jersey City by the New York New Jersey Rail, LLC, which still operates car floats across Upper New York Bay. As of October 2014 [update] , the New York City Department of Parks is in the design phase of a project to reconstruct, restore and adaptively ...
The project's cost was split between the New York Central, run by Commodore Vanderbilt, and New York City, whose payment of $3.2 million was to be made up from increased taxes from future development. [5] [6] [7] The line was sunk into a tunnel between 59th Street and 96th Street through Mount Pleasant, known as the Yorkville Tunnel. [8]