Amtrak service between New York City and Croton-on-Hudson in Westchester County remains suspended Monday morning after officials said a parking garage in Midtown Manhattan had structural issues that potentially endangered tracks below it.
Amtrak had no estimate for normal service restoration as of shortly after 7 a.m. Monday, according to a spokesperson for the railroad company.
In a service alert issued at 8:40 p.m. Sunday, Amtrak said it was temporarily suspending service between Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station and the Croton-Harmon station due to “safety concerns” related to structural issues at a privately owned building in the city, above the Empire Line tracks that run to Albany.
As an alternative, Amtrak directed customers to take Metro-North between Grand Central Terminal and Croton-Harmon, and said Amtrak tickets would be “cross-honored” by Metro-North. (Shortly after 7 a.m. Monday, Metro-North reported a switch issue near Croton-Harmon had delayed an earlier train to Grand Central by 10 to 15 minutes.)
Also on Sunday night, Mayor Eric Adams said in a series of posts on X that engineers with the city’s buildings department had begun assessing the situation at the parking garage immediately after the city learned of the issues there. ABC7 and CBS News reported the garage is located on W. 51st St. between 10th and 11th avenues, in Hell’s Kitchen.
“Emergency work orders were quickly issued so the parking garage owners could begin addressing the issue,” Adams said.
The mayor’s office did not immediately respond early Monday morning when asked for specifics about the structural issues and emergency work orders at the garage.
Last month, service on Amtrak’s Empire Line and Metro-North’s Hudson Line was temporarily suspended because of a rain-induced mudslide in Westchester County that left major debris on the tracks. Service was largely restored by the next day — a Monday — after workers cleared much of the debris.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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