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New Jersey and New York Railroad
Map
The Hillsdale station house (1872) was the company headquarters.[1]
Overview
HeadquartersHillsdale, New Jersey, U.S.
LocaleBergen County, New Jersey & Rockland County, New York
Dates of operation–1896
PredecessorHackensack and New York Extension Railroad
SuccessorErie Railroad
Technical
Track gauge4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Route map

Legend
Haverstraw (1887)
CSX River Subdivision (West Shore Railroad)
West Haverstraw (1873)
Thiells (1873)
Mount Ivy (1873)
Pomona
Summit Park
New Hempstead
Union
New City
Durant
Germonds
Bardonia
Erie Piermont Branch
to Suffern
Spring Valley
Erie Piermont Branch
to Piermont
NJT Nanuet │ Nanuet (Burned 1991)[2]
Pearl River
NY
NJ
Montvale
Park Ridge (1872)
Woodcliff Lake
Hillsdale Manor
Hillsdale (1870)
Roundhouse and yard
Westwood
Emerson
Oradell
New Milford
River Edge (burned 1901, rebuilt 1902)
North Hackensack (1870, demolished 1978)
Fairmount Avenue (1870)
Anderson Street (1869, burned 2009)
Central Avenue (1870, closed 1953)
NYS&W mainline
Essex Street (1861, 1893, burned 1970)
Lodi Branch Railroad (opened 1889, closed mid-1890s)
Teterboro (station house demolished 1967)
Hasbrouck Heights (closed 1967)[3]
Wood-Ridge (station house demolished 1967)[3]
Carlstadt (closed 1967)[3]
Erie mainline
to Buffalo
Erie mainline
to Jersey City
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The New Jersey and New York Railroad (NJ&NY) was a railroad company that operated north from Rutherford, New Jersey, to Haverstraw, New York beginning in the mid-to-late 19th century.[4][5]

History

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The line was originally chartered as the Hackensack and New York Railroad (H&NY) in 1856. The H&NY would eventually run from Rutherford to Hackensack, New Jersey. In 1866 under the leadership of David P. Patterson the company was chartered as the Hackensack and New York Extension Railroad and it extended its line north of Hackensack. It later reorganized as the New Jersey and New York Railroad. The line reached the town of Hillsdale, New Jersey, by 1870,[1] the village of West Haverstraw by 1873, and the village of Haverstraw by 1887.[4]

The NJ&NY was leased for 99 years by the Erie Railroad in 1896.[3] The NJ&NY continued to exist as an Erie subsidiary until the 1960 merger that created the Erie Lackawanna Railroad. In 1976, the Erie Lackawanna was merged with several other railroads to create Conrail. In 1983, after several years under operation by Conrail, operations of the Pascack Valley Line were transferred to New Jersey Transit Rail Operations.[6] The segments of the two former railroad lines in New York – north of Spring Valley to Haverstraw and north of Nanuet to New City – are no longer in service.

In 1956, NJ&NY reported 4.4 million net ton-miles of revenue freight and 21 million passenger-miles on 39 miles of railroad.

Stations

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A typical New Jersey and New York Railroad station in the 1900s or 1910s featured a gable or hip roof and often had board and batten siding.[citation needed] The larger and more elaborate station at Hillsdale served as the company headquarters and was built in a mixture of the Second Empire and Stick-Eastlake architectural styles.[citation needed]

Early photographs of stations along the New Jersey and New York Railroad line include:

References

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  1. ^ a b Mrnarevic, Karen F. (December 10, 2009). "Hillsdale's history 'tied' to the railroad". Pascack Valley Community Life. NorthJersey.com. Archived from the original on September 2, 2012. Retrieved November 9, 2010.
  2. ^ https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-journal-news-nanuet-fire-march-14/14213575/
  3. ^ a b c d Jones, Wilson E. (1996). The Pascack Valley Line - A History of the New Jersey and New York Railroad. East Hanover, New Jersey: Railroadians of America. ISBN 0-941652-14-9.
  4. ^ a b "Town of Haverstraw: History". Retrieved October 2, 2014.
  5. ^ Please see the 1891 maps of West Haverstraw and Haverstraw village at: Bayley, Don. "Haverstraw Brickmaking". Retrieved November 8, 2010.
  6. ^ Havilland, Pierce. "The Pascack Valley Line". Retrieved November 8, 2010.
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