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MOUNT PLEASANT, N.Y. – It's official. Mount Pleasant is home to both the best and worst train station in the area.
That according to Michael Malone and his commuting blog trainjotting.com. Malone surveyed readers and fellow commuters from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut to find out which train station in the tri-state area is the worst.
Hawthorne took home the crown for all the wrong reasons. In Malone's contest titled, "Crappiest Train Station in the Tri-State", many factors went in to Hawthorne winning, or losing, the contest. He writes in his post, "An unfavorable mix of sidewalk-free approach streets, a run-down appearance, unpleasant kids from neighboring reform school and general unacceptable level of cleanliness, wrote commenters, doomed Hawthorne."
Recently, Malone spoke with Hawthorne resident and SNY.tv senior editor Ted Berg about his experiences with the Hawthorne Train Station. Berg said, "The worst thing has to be the ever-present stench of urine. Seriously: who keeps peeing in the stairwell?"
In the summer of 2008, Trainjotting named Pleasantville the "Best Damn Commuter Town Period" for reasons such as walkable streets, parking and nearby amenities such as the Iron Horse Grill. The Pleasantville and Hawthorne train stations are only 3.5 miles away from each other and run on the same Harlem Metro-North Railroad.
Malone said that Trainjotting received about 50 submissions of train stations from all over the tri-state area. Hawthorne won the survey by receiving 20 percent of the votes. Fellow Westchester County station at North White Plains finished in second place followed by Waterbury and Stamford stations in Connecticut.
How do you feel about the Hawthorne and Pleasantville train stations? Let us know your experiences with commuting from these Mount Pleasant stations!
Comments (4)
And don't forget those open bins of mulch and fertilizer and heaven knows what else?? If you're on the waiting platform at the southern end of the station (which is really desirable for southbound trains!) then you have to suffer getting all that manure and mulch blown all over you from the fertilizer/mulch bins in the parking lot behind the station -- I don't understand why they are allowed to have that stuff in open bins just a few yards from us -- if the stuff were covered, at least we wouldn't be inhaling it and getting covered in the stuff.....
The taste of that stuff certainly ruins the morning-joe.
Just for the record, Trainjotting has never named Pleasantville home to the region's best train station, as the story says. Pleasantville was named the best commuter town in the region, selected by Trainjotting readers, in 2008.
It's also worth noting that a large number of Trainjotting readers are from Hawthorne, as the blog is based there. That likely skewed the results a bit.
--Mike/Trainjotting
It may have skewed the results a bit but clearly not in a good way. Hawthorne's own residents are giving thumbs down to the station and to the approaches on the unwalkable streets nearby. I doubt Hawthorne would have won a "Best Train Station" from anyone.
I use the Station. It's no mistery who is peeing in the station. It's the kids from the neighboring reform school. This school doesn't belong in the area. Every day they are on the station leaving trash on the floor, every other word is F this or F that. They act like animals on the trains feet on the seats trash on the floors.
The cars that are parking in the lot without a permit should get fines. Not $10.00 which is cheep parking but $90.00 to $100.00and you will see how soon it will stop. The fines could be used to improve the station.