The Hudson River Railroad reached the settlement by 1849; the first passengers on a regularly scheduled run through the village paid fifty cents to travel from Peekskill to Chambers Street in Manhattan on September 29, 1849.

[5] The community was in the process of renaming itself after author Washington Irving, despite the fact that he was still alive at the time.

The existing station house was built in 1889 and designed by the Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge architectural firm.

Bankruptcy of the company followed by 1970, and Penn Central eventually turned passenger service over to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York, who made it part of Metro-North in 1983.

[7] The station has two slightly offset high-level side platforms each eight cars long.