Thu 5 Aug 2010
Mount Pleasant Station Photos to Die For
Posted by TJ under Hawthorne, Mount Pleasant
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Train blogger/photog Emily of IRideTheHarlemLine has revisited the tiny Mount Pleasant train station, which only receives/accepts passengers a few times a weekend as they visit/depart Gate of Heaven cemetery. (GoH is of course the final resting place of Babe Ruth and, about 50 feet away from Ruth, Billy Martin. George Steinbrenner is buried 1,200 miles away in Tampa.)
Emily takes terrific photos, and takes considerable delight in visiting Metro-North train stations and snapping the s*** out of them.
This is her second visit to Mount Pleasant; previously, she called it “The loneliest statin on the Harlem Line.” Oddly, it’s probably closer to my home than the Hawthorne station, though getting my bike up the hill through Gate of Heaven would make Broad Street’s Heartbreak Hill seem like a bunny slope.
She writes:
One of the first station panoramas I posted was from Mount Pleasant… though I wasn’t too happy with it, so I went back to the station, and got a few new panoramas. Enjoy!
Remind me to speak with Emily about helping with some sort of long-overdue redesign of Trainjotting.








