When the Metropolitan Transportation Authority assumed passenger commuter operations of the then-bankrupt Penn Central in the early 1970s and passed it along to Metro-North in 1983, it eventually closed the station house in favor of automated ticketing operations, and the main house fell into disrepair.

[6] As of 2008[update], the MTA has been working to extend the platforms to accommodate eight-car trains and improve service and capacity.

[7][needs update] The main building (no longer used for rail purposes) is a one-story hip-roofed octagonal structure of rock-faced granite block with stone, stucco and wood trim.

It is built into the bluff created when the tracks were cut, and thus access to them was provided through the basement, through doors which have since been bricked off.

[4] The station's east facade is augmented with two gabled porte-cocheres projecting at oblique angles, each supported by a heavy granite pier.

[8]: 3 The more modern station subsequently built by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) consists of two long concrete, elevated side platforms with dark-green painted steel shelters.