Fare zone 7 | Tracks 2 | |
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Location 1 Manitou Road,
Philipstown, New York Line(s) Empire Corridor
Hudson Line Platforms 2 low-level side platforms Address 1 Manitou Rd, Philipstown, NY 10524, USA Similar Breakneck Ridge, Peekskill, Greystone, Philipse Manor, Morris Heights | ||
Manitou /mænɪtoʊ/ is a limited service Metro-North Railroad station. The station is open part-time, serving one peak hour (weekday) train in each direction, and six weekend trains each direction. It serves the residents of that hamlet in the southwestern corner of Philipstown, New York in Putnam County, New York, via the Hudson Line. It is 46 miles (74 km) from Grand Central Terminal and travel time to Grand Central is approximately one hour, 16 minutes.
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Manitou is one of three stations - along with Breakneck Ridge on the Hudson Line and Appalachian Trail on the Harlem Line - that receives limited passenger service. Like these stations, it serves mainly hikers visiting nearby state parks in the Hudson Highlands. There is no elevated platform or facilities at the station, one of two on the line adjacent to a grade crossing, are limited to a small shelter with the current schedule posted inside. The station predates the merger of New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroads.
Station layout
This station has two low-level side platforms, each long enough for just one door of one car to receive and discharge passengers.
In popular culture
The Manitou station was featured in the television series Girls, in the episode "Video Games," in which Lena Dunham's character Hannah accompanies Jessa on a visit to her estranged father.