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Poughkeepsie station

Poughkeepsie
Metro-North and Amtrak station
Poughkeepsie train station.jpg
Location 41 Main Street
Poughkeepsie, New York 12601
Owned by MTA Metro-North Railroad
Line(s) Empire Corridor
Platforms 1 side platform
1 island platform
Tracks 4
Connections Local Transit City of Poughkeepsie Transit: Main Street, Shoppers' Special
Local Transit Dutchess LOOP: A, B, C, D, E, Poughkeepsie RailLink
Local Transit Leprechaun Lines: White Plains Bus
Local Transit Ulster County Area Transit: Ulster-Poughkeepsie LINK
Local Transit 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 Increase 2.3% (Amtrak)
Passengers (2006) 424,580 Steady 0% (Metro-North)
Services
Preceding station   BSicon LOGO Amtrak2.svg Amtrak   Following station
toward Montreal
Adirondack
Empire Service
toward Rutland
Ethan Allen Express
toward Toronto
Maple Leaf
toward Chicago
Lake Shore Limited
MTA NYC logo.svg Metro-North Railroad
Hudson Line Terminus
  Former services  
New York Central Railroad
toward Chicago
Water Level Route
Poughkeepsie Railroad Station
Poughkeepsie station is located in New York
Poughkeepsie station
Poughkeepsie station is located in the US
Poughkeepsie station
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.


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