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On November 13, 2018, the MTA announced its intent to purchase the Hudson and Harlem Lines as well as the Grand Central Terminal for up to $35.065 million, plus a discount rate of 6.25%. [1] The purchase would include all inventory, operations, improvements, and maintenance associated with each asset, except for the air rights over Grand Central.
The main concourse of Grand Central Terminal, a National Historic Landmark and New York City Landmark. As with many commuter railroad systems of the late-20th Century in the United States, the stations exist along lines that were inherited from other railroads of the 19th and early 20th Centuries.
Tarrytown station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line, located in Tarrytown, New York. The Tappan Zee Bridge is not far from the station, resulting in its use by Rockland County commuters. The station has two slightly offset high-level platforms, each able to accommodate 10 cars.
Long Island Rail Road trains will soon pass though Sunnyside, Queens, on their way to new platforms in Grand Central Terminal — but the subway will remain the only train option to Manhattan for ...
The MTA exercised their option to buy what was now Argent Ventures' rail assets on November 13, 2018. Under the terms of the deal, the MTA purchased Grand Central Terminal, as well as the Hudson Line from Grand Central to a point 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Poughkeepsie, and the Harlem Line from Grand Central to Dover Plains. [53]
Selected trains on the Harlem and New Haven lines also stop at this station on game days. [2] Shuttle trains and Hudson Line trains also transport fans between the stadium and Grand Central Terminal, [3] helping to reduce traffic on the subway lines used to connect to New Jersey Transit and Long Island Rail Road trains at Penn Station.
Nearly all electric trains running on the Hudson Line originate and terminate here, though a handful of peak-direction rush hour trains do so further south at Greystone, Irvington, or Tarrytown. [4] As the line's electrification ends just north of the station, trains traveling to or from points north (primarily the northern terminus ...
The current station was built in 1896–97 and designed by Morgan O'Brien, New York Central and Hudson River Railroad principal architect. It replaced an earlier one that was built in 1874 when the New York Central and the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, the ancestors of today's Metro-North, moved the tracks from an open cut to the present-day elevated viaduct.