page_title: New Paltz (village), New York
section_title: Rail
hierarchical_section_title: New Paltz (village), New York / Transportation / Rail
caption_attribution_description: English: The train station at New Paltz, New York, depicted in a postcard.
context_page_description: New Paltz is a village in Ulster County located in the U.S. state of New York. It is about 80 miles north of New York City and 70 miles south of Albany. The population was 6,818 at the 2010 census.
  New Paltz is located within the town of New Paltz. It is also home to the State University of New York at New Paltz, founded in 1828. The town is served by exit 18 on the New York State Thruway, as well as state routes 299, 32, and 208, and is about 90 minutes from both New York City and Albany.
context_section_description: The Wallkill Valley Railroad, founded in 1866, stretched from Montgomery to Kingston. The New Paltz railroad station was originally built in 1870, rebuilt after a 1907 fire. The railroad and station later came under New York Central ownership. The NYC operated two trains a day, each direction, on a Kingston-New Paltz-Montgomery run. At Kingston, connections were available trains north to Albany and south to Weehawken, New Jersey. The passenger service through New Paltz ended in 1937, and the rail division was abandoned by Conrail in 1983. The former roadbed was converted for use as the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail. 
  The former station (now called La Stazione) was sold to private interests in 1959. The building was in a state of disrepair by the early 1980s, but renovated in 1988 and converted to an Italian restaurant in 1999.
  The nearest active railroad station is the Poughkeepsie Metro-North station, which is served by several Amtrak trains and is the terminus for the Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line. The Hudson Line stretches from Poughkeepsie to Grand Central Terminal in New York City. Poughkeepsie is a 15-20 minute drive east of New Paltz.
caption: The former New York Central station
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