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Ossining
Ossining station in September 2022
General information
Location	1 Main Street Ossining, New York
Coordinates	41°9′27.07″N 73°52′8.90″W / 41.1575194°N 73.8691389°W / 41.1575194; -73.8691389
Line(s)	Hudson Line
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	4
Connections	Bee-Line Bus System: 13, 19 NY Waterway: Haverstraw–Ossining Ferry
Construction
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	5
History
Opened	September 29, 1849
Rebuilt	1914
Previous names	Sing-Sing
Passengers
2018	1,656 (Metro-North)
Rank	38 of 109
Services
Preceding station Metro-North Railroad Following station Croton–HarmonTerminus Hudson Line Scarboroughtoward Grand Central Croton–Harmontoward Poughkeepsie Tarrytowntoward Grand Central
Former services Preceding station New York Central Railroad Following station Harmontoward Chicago Main Line Tarrytowntoward New York Harmontoward Peekskill Hudson Division Scarboroughtoward New York
Location

Ossining station is a commuter rail station on the Metro-North Railroad Hudson Line, located in Ossining, New York. Near the station is a ferry dock which is used by the NY Waterway-operated Haverstraw–Ossining Ferry. The station has two high-level island platforms, each 10 cars long, serving the line's four tracks.

History

The Hudson River Railroad reached Ossining on September 29, 1849, opening the village up to industrial development along the waterfront and allowing farmers inland to ship their produce to the markets of New York City. Among the riverside industrial concerns benefiting from the railroad were the marble quarries at Sing Sing Prison, Benjamin Brandreth's pill factory (still extant a short distance up the river) and others. These businesses gradually supplanted the boat builders and docks that had occupied the riverfront in the early 19th century.

Originally the station building was at grade level. In 1914 the New York Central Railroad, which the Hudson River had long been merged into, built a new station, the current building, in the Renaissance Revival style. It was placed on metal stilts to allow Main Street to pass over the tracks, eliminating the grade crossing that had been part of the original station. Like the rest of the Hudson Line, the station became a Penn Central station once the NYC & Pennsylvania Railroads merged in 1968. Penn Central's continuous financial despair throughout the 1970s forced them to turn over their commuter service to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The station and the railroad were turned over to Conrail in 1976, and eventually became part of the MTA's Metro-North Railroad in 1983. In 2000, New York Waterways used the station as the eastern port for the Haverstraw–Ossining Pedestrian Ferry creating a link between the station and Central Rockland County.

References

1. ^ "Hudson River Railroad". The Evening Post. New York, New York. October 2, 1849. p. 4. Retrieved December 8, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
2. ^ METRO-NORTH 2018 WEEKDAY STATION BOARDINGS. Market Analysis/Fare Policy Group:OPERATIONS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS DEPARTMENT:Metro-North Railroad. April 2019. p. 6.
3. "Metro-North Railroad Track & Structures Department Track Charts Maintenance Program Interlocking Diagrams & Yard Diagrams 2015" (PDF). Metro-North Railroad. 2015. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
4. Village of Ossining, "Village of Ossining Significant Sites and Structures Guide" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 13, 2014. Retrieved June 26, 2011., April 2010, pp. 252–54, retrieved June 26, 2011.

External links

Media related to Ossining station at Wikimedia Commons

• Metro-North station page for Ossining
• List of upcoming Metro-North train departure times and track assignments from MTA

• Metro-North Railroad stations in New York (state)
• Former New York Central Railroad stations
• Railway stations in Westchester County, New York
• Renaissance Revival architecture in New York (state)
• Railway stations in the United States opened in 1849
• Ossining, New York
• 1849 establishments in New York (state)