The New Jersey and New York Railroad (NJ&NY) was a

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company that operated north from Rutherford,

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, to

Haverstraw Haverstraw is a town in Rockland County, New York, United States, located north of the Town of Clarkstown and the Town of Ramapo; east of Orange County; south of the Town of Stony Point; and west of the Hudson River. The town runs from the w ...

, New York beginning in the mid-to-late 19th century.Please see the 1891 maps of West Haverstraw and Haverstraw village at:

History

The line was originally chartered as the

Hackensack and New York Railroad The Hackensack and New York Railroad was a New Jersey railroad company which was chartered in 1856. The railway ran from Rutherford, New Jersey to Hackensack, New Jersey and service started in 1858. Construction along a northward extension of ...

(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 rechartered 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 Hillsdale is a borough in the New York City metropolitan area in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 10,219, the village of West Haverstraw by 1873, and the village of

by 1887. The NJ&NY was in turn leased for 99 years by the

Erie Railroad The Erie Railroad was a railroad that operated in the northeastern United States, originally connecting New York City — more specifically Jersey City, New Jersey, where Erie's Pavonia Terminal, long demolished, used to stand — with Lake Er ...

in 1896. The NJ&NY continued to exist as an Erie subsidiary until the 1960 merger that created the

Erie Lackawanna Railroad The Erie Lackawanna Railway , known as the Erie Lackawanna Railroad until 1968, was formed from the 1960 merger of the Erie Railroad and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. The official motto of the line was "The Friendly Service Route" ...

. 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 The Pascack Valley Line is a commuter rail line operated by the Hoboken Division of New Jersey Transit, in the United States. The line runs north from Hoboken Terminal, through Hudson County and Bergen County in New Jersey, and into Rockland Co ...

were transferred to

New Jersey Transit Rail Operations NJ Transit Rail Operations is the rail division of NJ Transit. It operates commuter rail service in New Jersey, with most service centered on transportation to and from New York City, Hoboken, and Newark. NJ Transit also operates rail servic ...

. 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

A typical NJ&NY station in the 1900s or 1910s had a

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and often had board and batten siding. The larger and more elaborate station at Hillsdale served as the company headquarters and was built in a mixture of the

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and Stick-Eastlake architectural styles. Early photographs of stations along the NJ&NY line include: File:NJ&NY-HackEssexStrStation1907Postcard.jpg, Essex Street station in a 1907 postcard File:Anderson Street 1869.jpg,

Anderson Street station Anderson Street is a New Jersey Transit rail station on the Pascack Valley Line. The station is one of two rail stations in Hackensack (the other being Essex Street) and located at Anderson Street near Linden Street. The station house was bui ...

in 1910 File:NJ&NY-FairmountHackensack1911Postcard.jpg, "Fairmount Depot" in a 1911 postcard File:Pearl River train station.jpg,

Pearl River station Pearl River station is a railroad station in Pearl River, New York. It serves NJ Transit and Metro-North Railroad trains on the Pascack Valley Line. It is located at 35 South Main Street between West Central Avenue and Jefferson Avenue. Pearl ...

in 1910

References

External links

* A system map at: {{DEFAULTSORT:New Jersey New York Railroad Defunct New York (state) railroads Defunct New Jersey railroads Transportation in Bergen County, New Jersey Transportation in Rockland County, New York Predecessors of the Erie Railroad Railway companies established in 1880 Railway companies disestablished in 1896 Railway companies disestablished in 1967 Former Class I railroads in the United States American companies established in 1880 Rail lines in Rockland County, New York