Yonkers (Metro-North station)

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Southbound Amtrak train arriving at Yonkers station

Yonkers

Station statistics

Address

5 Buena Vista Avenue
Yonkers, New York 10701

Lines

Amtrak:

Adirondack

Empire Service

Ethan Allen Express

Maple Leaf

Metro-North:

Hudson Line

Other information

Passengers (2006)

16,442^[1]

Code

YNY

The Yonkers Metro-North Railroad station serves the downtown area of Yonkers, New York via the Hudson Line. It is one of four express stations on that line south of Croton-Harmon, seeing most trains minus peak hour trains to/from Poughkeepsie. Some Amtrak trains also serve it. Trains leave for New York City every 25 to 35 minutes on weekdays. It is 15.1 miles (24 km) from Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan. Travel time to Grand Central is approximately 33 minutes. The station is located 2 blocks west of Getty Square.

Main entrance to the station, facing downtown Yonkers.

The station was built in 1911 in the Beaux-Arts style. The architects were Warren and Wetmore, one of the firms responsible for Grand Central Terminal. In 2004, Metro-North completed a $43 million restoration of the Yonkers station.

As of August 2006, daily commuter ridership was 922 and there were 783 parking spaces.^[2]

[edit] Notes

^ Amtrak only.
^ [1]

Ticket office inside station

[edit] External links

Amtrak - Stations - Yonkers, NY

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Previous station	Amtrak	Next station
Croton-Harmon toward Montreal	Adirondack	New York Terminus
Croton-Harmon toward Niagara Falls	Empire Service
Croton-Harmon toward Rutland	Ethan Allen Express
Croton-Harmon toward Toronto	Maple Leaf
Previous station	Metro-North Railroad	Next station
Glenwood (local) toward Poughkeepsie	Hudson Line	Ludlow (local) toward Grand Central
Tarrytown (express) toward Poughkeepsie	Hudson Line	Marble Hill (express) toward Grand Central