What is "port jervis"

The Port Jervis Metro-North station serves the residents of Port Jervis, New York and surrounding communities. It is the western terminus of the Port Jervis Line, with trains taking New York City-bound passengers there via Hoboken and Secaucus Junction. It is the most remote station on the network from the center of New York City, with travel time to Grand Central Terminal being approximately 2.5 hours.

Located slightly off US 6 and 209 in downtown Port Jervis, it is the westernmost station in the Metro-North system. It is, in fact, within two blocks' walk of the bridge over the Delaware River to Matamoras, Pennsylvania, a state which produces some regular commuters. The northwestern tip of New Jersey, also not far away, draws riders as well. Rail distance to Hoboken via NJ Transit's Main Line is 95 miles (153 km), the longest distance from one terminal to another on the Metro-North system.

The station sees several commuter trains a day, operated by New Jersey Transit. Until 1999, Conrail had a handful of trains traversing over the Southern Tier Line, which is now owned by Norfolk Southern. Today, the New York Susquehanna & Western operates six trains a week past the station, usually passing by during the night hours.

The Erie Depot, officially known as the Erie Railroad Station, is located at the corner of Jersey Avenue and Fowler Street in Port Jervis, New York. It was built in 1892 as a passenger station for the Erie Railroad by Grattan & Jennings in a Queen Anne style. For many years it was the busiest passenger station on the railroad's Delaware Branch, owing to Port Jervis's position on the Delaware River near where New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania converge. The Erie Limited and the Lake Cities trains between Chicago and Hoboken ran through this station.

The decline in passenger rail traffic in the mid-20th century eventually led the railroad to end all passenger service between Port Jervis and Binghamton in 1970. Commuter service to Hoboken was taken over by the MTA's Metro-North Railroad shortly thereafter. Metro-North chose not to use the old station for what it called the Port Jervis Line, electing instead to build a minimalist station of its own, consisting of a parking lot, shelter and street-level concrete platform several hundred feet further down the tracks.

The old building began to decline, as the city itself did with the absence of the railroad, until it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Since then it has been renovated and today houses several small shops on the street side.