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Hartsdale station as seen from East Hartsdale Avenue
Location	1 East Hartsdale Avenue, Hartsdale, New York
Line(s)	Harlem Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	Bee-Line Bus System: 34, 38, 39
Construction
Parking	797 spaces
Disabled access	Yes (to each platform); No (between platforms)
Other information
Fare zone	4
History
Opened	December 1, 1844
Rebuilt	1915 (NYC)
Electrified	700V (DC) third rail
Previous names	Hart's Corner
Traffic
Passengers (2007)	794,405  0%
Services
Preceding station Metro-North Following station Scarsdale towards Grand Central Harlem Line White Plains towards North White Plains
Former services
Preceding station New York Central Railroad Following station Scarsdale toward New York Harlem Division White Plains toward Chatham
Hartsdale Railroad Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Hartsdale, New York, USA
Architect	Warren and Wetmore
Architectural style	Tudor Revival
NRHP reference No.	11000453
Added to NRHP	July 14, 2011

The Hartsdale station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line, serving the communities of Greenburgh and Scarsdale, New York. It is 20.6 miles (33.2 km) from Grand Central Terminal, and the average travel time varies between 33 and 48 minutes (depending on if a train is express or local).

This station is located in the Zone 4 Metro-North fare zone.

History

The station building was originally built in 1915 (or 1914 according to the MTA) by the Warren and Wetmore architectural firm for the New York Central Railroad, as a replacement for a smaller wooden depot built by the New York and Harlem Railroad originally known as "Hart's Corner Station." Unlike most Warren & Wetmore-built NYC stations, which were grand cathedral-like structures using Beaux-Arts architecture, this one was strictly of the Tudor Revival style. The station was named after the valley owned by the Harts.

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. In 2011, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Station layout

This station has two slightly offset high-level side platforms, each 12 cars long. There is space for a third track at this location.

M	Mezzanine	Crossover between platforms
P Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Track 2	←      Harlem Line toward Grand Central (Scarsdale)
	Track 1	←      Harlem Line toward North White Plains (White Plains) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Street level	Exit/entrance, parking, buses

Public art

The station is the site of Workers, a series of sculptures by Tom Nussbaum portraying silhouettes of railroad workers and commuters. The sculptures are rendered in COR-TEN® steel and placed between the northbound and southbound tracks. Additional monumentally-scaled human figures made of iron are situated in the track bed.