Comments on: Tuesday Tour of the Harlem Line: Fleetwood

By: William Hays

William Hays — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:56:40 +0000

Re: pictures 1,2, & 3. Fleetwood had a little newsstand, just at the foot of the stairs, in the EB side. The bridges pictured are Broad St., the Cross County Parkway, and the pedestrian overpass. In the distance is the RR bridge over the Bronx River, near the Bronxville line. It was designed for easy climbing! Wasn’t a good idea, I now think.

By: William Hays

William Hays — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 20:49:41 +0000

Back when I commuted from Fleetwood, in the ’50s and ’60s, the third track terminated just south of the station. It was used as a departure track for ‘extra’ morning trains to GCT. These trains were staged from the Mount Vernon west coach yard. If I rode one, I was late for work, having missed the 7:19 AM departure. Lucky I was the boss’ son, but still got chewed out…

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:51:40 +0000

I live on the Yonkers side of Fleetwood Station and commute from there daily in the City. I have searched everyplace and cannot find why they named the station fleetwood when it was added to the line in the early 1920’s. Can anyone shed some light?

By: AuntieNettie

AuntieNettie — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:16:35 +0000

Thanks for making Fleetwood look so much better than it actually is, and for information on the sculpture. I’ve passed it daily for a number of years now and didn’t know why or how it had come to be in our little corner of the world.

Discovered the blog today. LOVE it.

By: Old Geezer

Old Geezer — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:12:32 +0000

Ah, food on the train. One of my least favorite permitted activities. Why?

Because, for some reason, the food people bring on the train to eat (except for packets of chips and the like) mostly SMELLS AWFUL! And they sit near me with it. Why? There’s an app for that!

iQuery: where can I buy smelly food to eat on the train?

iReply: Try and and .

iQuery: And who can I sit near to get the most annoyment value from my odiferous food experience?

iReply: Old Geezer is normally in the head car near the head-end-most door.

And don’t even bring up the subject of noisy eaters! Slurping smelly food near me on the train! It’s enough to make one want to drive! They do it on the train because their SO won’t let them do it at home.

(Yes, I am a curmudgeon.)

By: Al Cyone

Al Cyone — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:18:10 +0000

Ah ha! So that’s why it’s called “Snickers”.

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:11:33 +0000

Yes, Jeremy.

A third track was added a few years to Crestwood so more trains can run on the line.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:42:30 +0000

Apparently a third track was added over the years. I remember once reading about a plan for a controversial third track but I don’t know whether it was the Harlem Line or not (but it was about MetroNorth as opposed to LIRR which has its own third track controversy). Has this come up in your research into the history of the line?

By: Emily

Emily — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:55:28 +0000

In reply to Jennifer.

Cool, I am glad you liked them. Before those renovations were done there were photos taken for the Historic American Buildings Survey, which is where those pictures came from. If you check out this page: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/ you can search for Fleetwood and see more of those old photos.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:41:19 +0000

I grew up not very far from Fleetwood train station and commuted 4 years from that station into the city for school. I remembered when the “renovations” were done at Fleetwood train station but I don’t remember how the old station looked. Thanks for posting those photos from the 80s. I have clearly forgotten that once upon a time the overpass didn’t exist.