Yonkers Trolley Barn
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Yonkers Trolley Barn
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North elevation, 2009
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| Location | Yonkers, NY |
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| Coordinates | 40°56′3″N 73°54′10″W / 40.93417°N 73.90278°WCoordinates: 40°56′3″N 73°54′10″W / 40.93417°N 73.90278°W |
| Area | 1.6 acres (6,500 m2) |
| Built | 1903 |
| Architect | Albert V. Porter |
| Architectural style | Renaissance Revival |
| NRHP reference # | 02000141 |
| Added to NRHP | March 6, 2002 |
The former Yonkers Trolley Barn is located on Main Street in Yonkers, New York, United States. It is a massive steel frame brick building in the Renaissance Revival style built at the beginning of the 20th century. In 2002 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the last remaining trolley barn in Westchester County and the only remnant of Yonkers' trolley system.
After a half-century of use in the city's trolley network with its hub in Getty Square (downtown Yonkers), it was taken out of service. For another two decades it served as a city government office building. It was then vacant for almost 30 years, until a developer converted it into loft apartments, gutting the interior in the process.
After the partners in that effort were unable to complete the building due to the lawsuits they filed against each other, another developer bought it and finished the project. Today it is home to many tenants. A chase scene in the film Catch Me If You Can was filmed on the sidewalks around it. In 2014, a local brewery announced that it would be moving into the Trolley Barn.
The trolley barn building is located in downtown Yonkers on the 1.6-acre (6,500 m2) lot between Buena Vista Avenue on the east, Main Street to the north and the railroad tracks used primarily by Metro-North's Hudson Line commuter rail service on the west. The surrounding Getty Square neighborhood of downtown Yonkers is densely developed and urban. Terrain is generally level, reflecting the nearby Hudson River, rising slightly toward the east, away from the river, and more steeply to the south, along Buena Vista.
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