Poughkeepsie (Metro-North station)

Poughkeepsie
Metro-North and Amtrak station
Location	41 Main Street Poughkeepsie, New York 12601
Owned by	MTA Metro-North Railroad
Line(s)	Empire Corridor   Hudson Line
Platforms	1 side platform 1 island platform
Tracks	4
Connections	City of Poughkeepsie Transit: Main Street, Shoppers' Special Dutchess LOOP: A, B, C, D, E, Poughkeepsie RailLink Leprechaun Lines: White Plains Bus Ulster County Area Transit: Ulster-Poughkeepsie LINK Short Line Bus: X32N
Construction
Parking	1,101 spaces
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	POU
Fare zone	9 (Metro North)
History
Opened	1918
Rebuilt	2009
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	100,791  2.3% (Amtrak)
Passengers (2006)	424,580  0% (Metro-North)
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station Rhinecliff-Kingston toward Montreal Adirondack Croton–Harmon toward New York City Rhinecliff-Kingston toward Niagara Falls, NY Empire Service Rhinecliff-Kingston toward Rutland Ethan Allen Express Rhinecliff-Kingston toward Toronto Maple Leaf Albany–Rensselaer toward Chicago Lake Shore Limited Metro-North Railroad New Hamburg toward Grand Central Hudson Line Terminus   Former services   New York Central Railroad Hyde Park toward Chicago Water Level Route New Hamburg toward New York City
Poughkeepsie Railroad Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Main Street, Poughkeepsie, New York
Coordinates	41°42′26″N 73°56′18″W / 41.70722°N 73.93833°W / 41.70722; -73.93833Coordinates: 41°42′26″N 73°56′18″W / 41.70722°N 73.93833°W / 41.70722; -73.93833
Area	8.7 acres (3.5 ha)
Built	1918 (1918)
Architect	Warren & Wetmore
Architectural style	Beaux Arts
NRHP Reference #	76001214
Added to NRHP	November 21, 1976

The Poughkeepsie Metro-North Railroad station serves Poughkeepsie, New York and surrounding areas as the north end of the Hudson Line. It is also served by many Amtrak trains, which continue north to Albany, Syracuse, Montreal, Buffalo,and Toronto and south to New York City's Pennsylvania Station. Trains leave for New York every hour on weekdays, and about every 25 minutes during rush hour. It is 73.5 miles (118.3 km) from Grand Central Terminal and travel time to Grand Central is about one hour, 46 minutes.

Poughkeepsie is 8.5 miles (13.7 km) from New Hamburg, the next station to the south. This is the longest distance between stations on the Hudson Line, the longest on any Metro-North main line, and the third longest on the entire system.

Built in 1918, the main station building is meant to be a much smaller version of Grand Central. It was a source of civic pride when it opened. In 1976 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places; it and Philipse Manor are the only Hudson Line stations outside Manhattan to be so recognized.

The station is a four story building built into a rockface, with the bottom two levels given over to the tracks and the top two accounted for by the main waiting room, a two story brick-faced building. Its five-bay facade features sculptured masonry designs over the five high arched windows. To the west, a 420x15-foot (128x5 m) steel-frame overhead walkway provides access to the tracks via stairs and elevators. Today it continues westward to provides access to the adjacent parking garage. At the time of the station's construction, it served the businesses along Main Street.