Ho-Ho-Kus is a stop on the combined portion of the Main and Bergen County lines that generally receives service from two trains per hour in each direction or better. The only trains that bypass the station are Metro-North express trains running to and from Port Jervis. The station is located in a wooded area on the edge of this extremely affluent suburb. The stop consists of three-tracks with two low-level side platforms, the west side platform is for Hoboken trains, after a single track is a fence with the middle track allowing trains to stop via wooden boarding crossings to the Suffern-bound platform. The Hoboken-bound platform has a wooden waiting shed that also covers the station’s TVMs, the Suffern-bound platform has a historic stone station house, which is permanently closed.
The platforms begin about 150 feet south from the grade-crossing of Glenwood Road, here a walkway leads along the Hoboken-bound platform (with a fence) to a pedestrian only grade-crossing with lights and gates at the northern end of both platforms. All other access to the station is only from the Suffern-bound platform. It is along a 76 space parking lot that is open only to residents with a yearly permit. This parking lot is off of First Street that loops downhill at both sides of the station, down to Brookside Avenue that has an additional parking lot with 127 spaces including day parking.
Photos 1-14: October 29, 2005