The Journal News (a.k.a. Teen Stabbed in Yonkers Today) reports that the Mamaroneck train station is for sale. Among the suggestions for the brick Romanesque revival building are a cafe, a flower shop, and a gourmet takeout place.

But Mamaroneck has all of these. As far as the ‘burbs go, Mamaroneck has a rocking main drag, with several restaurants, coffee shops, a theater and every sort of mom and pop shop one could ever require. I know this because we visited G. Francis and his brood at the Mamaroneck Historic Harbor Fair over the weekend.

My proposal is, how about Metro-North do something with the Hawthorne train station? Right now, half of it is a taxi stand, and the other half is storage space for the hygienically ambiguous gentlemen who run the taxi stand. How about giving us a little coffee shop, especially since our little downtown is so little that you can’t get a gourmet takeout meal, and you can’t get a proper cup of coffee (my apologies to Pop’s Deli), and you can’t get flowers for the missus after like 5 p.m. (And you can’t get a bearclaw at Dunkin’ Donuts, thanks to the Mount Pleasant government.)

So hook us up, Metro-North. Screw Mamaroneck.