Manitou station
The Manitou station is a limited-service stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line. It serves the hamlet of Manitou in the southwestern corner of Philipstown, New York in Putnam County, New York. The station is open part-time, serving one peak hour train in each direction, and six weekend trains each direction. It is from Grand Central Terminal and travel time to Grand Central is approximately one hour, 16 minutes.
The Manitou station is one of three stations–along with Breakneck Ridge on the Hudson Line and Appalachian Trail on the Harlem Line–that receives limited passenger service. Like these stations, it serves mainly hikers visiting nearby state parks in the Hudson Highlands. There is no elevated platform and facilities at the station, one of two on the line adjacent to a grade crossing, are limited to a small shelter with the current schedule posted inside. The station predates the merger of New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroads.
The station closed on July 1, 1973 along with several other stations in Penn Central's Metropolitan Region. It reopened in 1983.Station layout
This station has two low-level side platforms, each long enough for just one door of one car to receive and discharge passengers.The Manitou station was featured in the television series Girls, in the episode "Video Games," in which Lena Dunham's character Hannah accompanies Jessa on a visit to her estranged father.
