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 #19862  by DutchRailnut
 
There is no abandoned ROW anywere on MNCR.
only bike trail in use/construction isex NYC Putnam Division from yonkers to near Carmel NY.

 #19893  by railtrailbiker
 
The Harlem Valley Rail Trail is located on the abandoned NY Central ROW north of MNCR's Wassaic Station.

The ROW between Wassaic and Amenia is currently unpaved, but accessible by foot or mountain bike. All other currently open sections of the trail are asphalt paved.

The HVRT is literally the only southern NY State rail trail easily accessible by train.

Check the official trail web site at:

http://www.hvrt.org/
 #26842  by railtrailbiker
 
Officials broke ground yesterday for a 2.6-mile extension to the Harlem Valley Rail Trail connecting the existing Mechanic Street Trailhead to the Metro-North Wassaic Train Station.

Dutchess County Executive William Steinhaus said the rail trail is being used by everyone from bikers and rollerbladers, to walkers and joggers. “We already have an eight-mile segment that has been done for a few years, which is enormously popular, not just for Dutchess County residents who want to get on the bike trail, but regionally people all across the Hudson River Valley and beyond the borders of New York State who come to the Amenia-Northeastern Millerton area to want to ride the Harlem Valley Rail Trail.”

Construction of the $634,000 project should be completed by this fall.

http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/HarVal_RT-16Jun04.htm

 #82788  by Bobby S
 
How about the trail in Orange County? The old Erie mainline between Monroe N.Y. and Goshen N.Y.? Wasn't that Metro North at one time?
 #214393  by manhattan exile
 
Post EL and very briefly until 1983/84 and a great ride from Monroe west past downtown Goshen (both paved and unpaid)