Hopewell Junction, New York

Hopewell Junction, New York
Hopewell Junction, New York
Census-designated place
	The former rail depot that served the junction of ND&C, NY&NE, and DCR for which the community was named
	Location of Hopewell Junction, New York
	Coordinates: 41°35′2″N 73°48′31″W / 41.58389°N 73.80861°W
Country	United States
State	New York
County	Dutchess
Town	East Fishkill
Area
• Total	0.74 sq mi (1.93 km2)
• Land	0.74 sq mi (1.92 km2)
• Water	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2)
Elevation	246 ft (75 m)
Population (2020)
• Total	1,330
• Density	1,792.45/sq mi (691.65/km2)
Time zone	UTC−5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
ZIP Code	12533
Area code	845
FIPS code	36-35573
GNIS feature ID	0953194

Hopewell Junction is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Dutchess County, New York, United States. The population was 1330 at the 2020 census.^[2] It is part of the Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York–Newark–Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area.

Hopewell Junction is located within the town of East Fishkill. It was originally a railroad junction where the Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut Railroad met the New York and New England Railroad and Dutchess County Railroad. All three became part of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad system, and the ND&C to the southwest and the NY&NE are now owned by the Housatonic Railroad and used by Metro-North for equipment moves between its Hudson Line and Harlem Line. The last remaining section of passenger line, a branch from Pine Plains, south through Milbrook, to Hopewell Junction, to Beacon, lost its passenger service at some point between 1932 and 1938.^[3]^[4] The closest passenger facility is Beacon station on Metro-North's Hudson Line. Today, Hopewell Junction sits astride the bike/walk Empire State Trail where it is the juncture between the Dutchess Rail Trail running west to the Walkway Over the Hudson at Poughkeepsie, New York and the more recently constructed Maybrook Trailway winding through the hills to Brewster, New York to almost meet the Putnam County Trailway and its continuations to New York City.

It was ranked #31 on Money magazine's "Most Desirable Places to Live" for 2005.

^ "ArcGIS REST Services Directory". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved September 20, 2022.
^ "Explore Census Data". data.census.gov. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
^ "New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, Table 75". Official Guide of the Railways. 64 (9). National Railway Publication Company. February 1932.
^ "New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, line in freight only status". Official Guide of the Railways. 71 (3). National Railway Publication Company. August 1938.