254 South Broadway
Also listed as 260 South Broadway
Park Hill (2002)
approx. pp. 742-755
Significance: Park Hill (2002), pp. 742-755, identifies the station at 254-260 South Broadway as the Putnam Railroad Rapid Transit Division stop that made Park Hill's residential development possible.
Park Hill West (1994)
approx. pp. 48-58
Significance: Park Hill West (1994), pp. 48-58, likewise identifies the station at 254-260 South Broadway as the transit link that enabled Park Hill's development.
Park Hill (1984)
approx. pp. 424-435
Significance: Park Hill (1984), pp. 424-435, describes the Park Hill railroad station as one of the amenities built by the American Real Estate Company to support the planned residential community.
Potential deed matches (1889, 1891, 1904, 1905)
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Related source items (1906 to 1907)
A 1906 transportation map and three 1907 postcards show Park Hill Station at 254 South Broadway as the lower transit node that connected the neighborhood to commuter rail service and to American Real Estate Company's promotional transit story.
- 1906 A cropped transportation-map image centers Park Hill within the broader rail, elevated-line, and proposed subway-extension network around Yonkers, Van Cortlandt Park, Kingsbridge, Marble Hill, and Manhattan. Park Hill is labeled in red, and the American Real Estate Company border ties the map to the company's transit-oriented promotion of the neighborhood. Source: B10 Academic Alliance.
- 1907 A Yonkers Public Library postcard shows Park Hill Station from an elevated angle, with a steam locomotive and passenger cars alongside the station, landscaped planting nearby, and hillside houses in the background. Source: Yonkers Public Library.
- 1907 A Yonkers Public Library postcard shows the station building without a train in the foreground, emphasizing its broad covered platform, stone base, timber posts, dormer and gable details, lawn, and curved walk. Source: Yonkers Public Library.
- 1907 A Yonkers Historical Society postcard shows Park Hill Station from track level, with the station building and its long covered platform on one side and a train with passenger cars along the tracks. Source: Yonkers Historical Society.