City Island station, is a former railway station within Pelham Bay Park, along the Hell Gate Line in the Bronx, New York. A larger stone station house was designed for the station by Cass Gilbert and built in 1908, remaining in use up until the 1930s.[1][2] The station is along what is currently Amtrak's Northeast Corridor.
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| Location | Near City Island Road, Bronx, New York, United States | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°52′8.0″N 73°48′46.8″W / 40.868889°N 73.813000°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Amtrak | ||||||||||
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| Architect | Cass Gilbert | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 1873 | ||||||||||
| Closed | 1930s | ||||||||||
| Previous names | Bartow | ||||||||||
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History
editThe original station was built in the early 1870s in the then Town of Pelham, for the Harlem River and Port Chester Railroad, a railroad between New York City and Port Chester, New York. In 1873, the line opened as part of the New York, New Haven and Hartford commuter railroad service.[3] Between 1884 and 1919, the Pelham Park and City Island Railway ran between this station and Marshall's Corner on City Island, Bronx, extending to the end of City Island at Belden Point by 1892.[4] The line opened from the Cass Gilbert-designed Bartow station to Marshall's Corner on May 20, 1887.[5] Five days later operations were extended across the bridge to City Island and along City Island Avenue to Brown's Hotel.[6]
Etymology of original name
editBartow station is named after the small hamlet which sat near it, once referred to as Bartow and Bartow-on-the-Sound.[7]
References
edit- ^ "Bartow Station". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
- ^ Gill, John Freeman (January 28, 2022). "In the Bronx, a Push to Save Cass Gilbert's Train Stations". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
- ^ "Bartow Station Ruins – Bronx, NY". Scenes From The Trail. April 14, 2017. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
- ^ Apportionment, New York (N Y. ) Board of Estimate and (1910). Minutes of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment of the City of New York. M.B. Brown Printing & Binding Company.
- ^ Editors of the Electric Railway Journal (1907). American Street Railway Investments. New York: McGraw Publishing Company. p. 217.
- ^ Upham, Ben (November 12, 2000). "CITY LORE; The Timetable of Age Overtakes Stations". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 12, 2021.
- ^ The Motor Boat: Devoted to All Types of Power Craft. Motor boat publishing Company. 1904.
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