Claremont Park (NYC station)
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Claremont Park
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Park Avenue and Claremont Parkway Crotona Park East, The Bronx, New York |
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| Owned by | New York Central Railroad | |||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 2 side platforms | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | Late-1860's | |||||||||||||||
| Closed | June 1, 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1889 | |||||||||||||||
| Electrified | 700V (DC) third rail | |||||||||||||||
| Previous names | Central Morrisania Claremont |
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Claremont Park was a station on the Harlem Line and of the New York Central Railroad which served the East Morrisania neighborhood in the borough of The Bronx. The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad also ran through this station but did not stop here.
Rail service along the New York and Harlem Railroad passed through Morrisania as far back as 1841, and a station was known to exist as far back as 1847, but this wasn't the station. Instead an additional station was built by New York Central and Hudson River Railroad within the vicinity of 172nd Street/Wendover Avenue as far back as the late-1860's. Originally named Central Morrisania station, it was built at surface level along with the rest of the tracks.
Realizing the railroad was causing suburban sprawl within what was then southern Westchester County, the New York City Parks Department acquired the site of the former Claremont Mansion one block to the west, and converted it into a park in 1881. The station was renamed for that park roughly around the time Claremont Park station was rebuilt by New York Central in the late 19th century, as part of a grade elimination project within the Bronx. It contained a station house as a bridge on the north side of Claremont Parkway over all four tracks, with two side platforms. Similar structures were built for the former Morrisania Station, as well as the still operating Melrose and Tremont Stations. A small freight yard also used to exist north of the station between the Claremont Parkway and 173rd Street bridges, the remnants of which can still be seen to this day. Three blocks east, the Suburban Rapid Transit Company built the Third Avenue Elevated Line and installed a station along the same street in 1888. No streetcar or bus lines connected the two stations to one another, however.
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