![]() “MTA Metro-North Railroad (Metro-North) has been preparing environmental analyses to examine the potential benefits and impacts associated with providing additional regional rail service within the New York Metropolitan Area from Metro-North’s east-of-Hudson service territory to Penn Station, New York, and the west side of Manhattan. The agency is in the process of conducting environmental reviews: There will be “extensive public outreach” on the Upper West Side once the agency turns its attention to that part of the project, the MTA spokesman said. The Upper West Side section is the second phase of the plan. The Bronx stations are part of the first phase of the Pen station plan, which entails bringing New Haven line trains through the Bronx to Penn station via Queens (the red line in the map below). The MTA has begun meeting with residents near the proposed stations, holding several open houses in the Bronx last year, to talk with them about the plan. There will be a station at 125th, but the Upper West Side location “still hasn’t been determined,” an MTA spokesman told us. The map below appears to show a station around 57th or 59th Street and one at 125th. But that plan fell apart, and the authority said it would look into possible sites at 72nd and 57th Streets. A few years ago, Metro-North had discussed building a station at West 60th Street just off of Riverside Park as part of the new mega-development (5 apartment towers plus retail and a movie theater) set to rise there. It’s not clear where the Upper West Side train station might go. The project would use existing Amtrak tracks along the Hudson River to take Metro-North trains on the Hudson line to Penn Station (see map below). The project could be completed as early as 2019, although the agency will have to come up with “hundreds of millions of dollars” to make it happen. ![]() The MTA is planning to put a West side train project in its 2014 long-term capital budget, Newsday recently reported. But those plans could start moving forward in the next few years, with train stations coming to the Upper West Side and near Columbia University. Metro-North has been eying a plan to bring train from the Hudson Valley to the West side of Manhattan and back again for decades, without any action. ![]()
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