Croton-Harmon Amtrak Station

The Croton-​Harmon Amtrak stop is about a 45 minute train ride from Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan, but it’s a beautiful ride along the Hudson River. Tickets weren’t expensive and the trains themselves are decent. This actual station is outdoor except for a waiting area on level two with a vending machine and a small coffee stand.

Although still under construction at the moment, Croton’s train station is one of the best I have been to. It is clean and has a kiosk to buy breakfast and coffee as well as vending machines and clean bathrooms.
The tracks are clearly marked and multiple screens available displaying departure times. There is a huge parking lot compared to other stations. Just make sure to park in the parking lot on the left with numbered spots, and not accidentally in permit parking (unless you have a permit, of course)
When paying for parking you need to have exact cash ($ 1 per hour) or a card. And you better repeat that spot number over and over in your head or write it down, because it can be quite a walk to the next pay station and its a pain to walk back just because you forgot the spot number.

Amtrak from Croton to Penn Station was a comedy of errors. Train was more than an hour late while the local trains were on time or within a few minutes. The station changed the track only as the train arrived to the station wich resulted in a mad dash up and down stairs with luggage and almost missing the train. Amtrak customer service was rude, transferred me to the wrong department then made me call back only to refuse to put me on an acela to hold my schedule to Wilmingon. They have lost me as a customer.

I don’t know which is worst the urine smell that permiates the station or the layers of dust and dirt. This statiion is flithy the bathrooms are dirtyand unkept, although I always see a custodian at the station moving around apparently none of that includes cleaning. As a daily Commuter I wish the employees take some pride in their aork space and keep the space cleaner. I uinderstand that the space gets used by hundreds of peoplle on any given day but to clean pigeon droppings and feces can be done at least once a month.

How the F— are people writing Unilocal reviews on a train station??? If I write it like I would for a restaurant it would be like no stars, but as Metro-​North stations go its 4-​star, and as Amtrak stations go its closer to a 3… WHEW. People who posted that they couldn’t figure out which train was theirs kind of points out thier lack of literacy as the trains have logos on the sides (If it doesn’t say Amtrak it probably isn’t) also frequent announcements are made, but you won’t hear them if you don’t take off your silly looking white ear-​buds…

I took an Amtrak to this station on a trip to my fiancée’s. Now, it may be just me… but the signs for the trains were very confusing. The NY Metro comes in on the same line that they Amtrak comes in, and there’s no way to check if it’s the right train before boarding. I ended up getting on the wrong one, had to get off at the next station, and have my fiancée and her mother come buy me a ticket to Grand Central.
Also, there aren’t any employees (or very few) at the train station – so you’re left to rely on the computerized signs.

Nice station, usually plenty of parking, and you can have an app to add time from your phone.

I’ll come to croton-​harmon if I dont have time to catch a peekskill train, or um. I just missed it and have to rush over here.
The parking is the biggest hassle b/​c the machines are confusing to use and have all these restrictions that are not always known/​visibly marked. My friend and I got a ticket after parking overnight on a weekend even tho we paid for overnight usage. God forbid you park in a sticker lot, all hell breaks loose. Sometimes you have to park in East Guam and walk 10 mins to get to the terminal. Once inside I’m surprised they don’t have more machines to give out tickets since CH is one of the biggest and busiest on this side of the Hudson.
At least they seem to have a decent amount of space if you need to wait for the train inside and its heated enough compared to some. I can’t stand how the late night ones make you transfer here to keep going to Cortlandt and beyond tho.
But it does the job.

As far as train stations go, if you can rent a parking space for $ 11 a day that is not a half-​mile away, it is clean and efficient

Very convenient with the number of express and local trains down to the city in the morning.

The station is fine enough, but you’d think, you know, with about a million parking spaces there’d be more room in the terminal. Luckily for us it was a Tuesday afternoon, but what happens at busy times? Maybe they don’t have that problem since it’s probably mostly people with monthly tickets who commute. Oh and by the way, if you buy a daily parking pass, apparently it is not good overnight. THANKS A LOT CROTON-​ON-​HUDSON PARKING POLICE! I got ticketed a few hours after midnight. How is it that I can leave my car for days without any parking pass *at all* in the Poughkeepsie station garage, but when I buy a pass at Croton-​Harmon, I get a ticket mere minutes after it expires? Screw you, Croton-​Harmon. I hope your justice court likes dick-​smeared checks for twenty dollars.