The always-entertaining I Ride the Harlem Line blog pays a special visit to “The Loneliest Station on the Harlem Line”–the Mount Pleasant stop between Hawthorne and Valhalla.
The MP stop is located at the nexus of several boneyards, including Gate of Heaven (final resting place of George Herman Babe Ruth, known to teammates and opponents as “Gidge”), Kensico Cemetery (resting place for Lou Gehrig and Harry Frazee, the man who sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees), and Sharon Garden s(home of various deceased members of New York’s Jewish community).
The train only stops there once during weekdays and thrice on weekends, and the platform is about the size of a surfboard.
Emily writes:
Nestled in between the stations of Valhalla and Hawthorne on the Harlem Line is an active station that you might not be aware of. Most trains pass by without stopping. On weekdays, only one train in each direction makes a stop there. On weekends there are three. The station is Mount Pleasant, and it just might be the loneliest station on the Harlem Line.
Harlem Line-r Emily is an excellent photog, and her curiousity would probably make her a good reporter too. She’s got lots of good pics of the Mount Pleasant station.
I’ve actually been on a few trains that have stopped at MP of late, thanks to weekend trips to the city to check out the Gotham skyscrapers with Little G.
Funny thing is, the Mount Pleasant stop may actually be closer to my house than the Hawthorne one is.
I’m one of the few (living) people who can claim that.