[2][needs update] More than half of the commuters travel to the station using the Hudson Rail Link bus.

The railroad let the station depots at Spuyten Duyvil be subject to damage, with the windows on the wooden structure boarded up and broken.

[10] Locals wanted some changes in how buildings are maintained after the fire in July 1957, noting that the railroad did not even patrol the area to keep people from destroying the depot.

The fires delayed some Penn Central Railroad trains, but not many due to a smaller Saturday schedule.

[15] Local pressure led to some bowing from the New York State Public Services Commission in February 1970, who promised the commuters a new, larger shelter above their heads at the station.

[18] In 1882, a local train of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad collided with a stopped express a mile south of the station, killing eight, including New York State Senator Webster Wagner, found crushed between two luxury sleeper cars built by his company.

A freight train hauling garbage lost nearly half its cars between Spuyten Duyvil and Marble Hill, requiring four days to clean up before one of the tracks could be reopened.

Directly west (railroad north) of the station, Amtrak's Empire Corridor services merges with the Hudson Line.

[22]: 2 Originally, a wye existed at this station, connecting the current Track 4 with the Spuyten Duyvil Bridge.

This was used by Hudson River Railroad and later New York Central trains, however passenger service ended in 1916.