http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25176496
Eleven of the injured are believed to be in a critical condition in hospital.
The Metro-North train's locomotive and carriages derailed as the train went into a bend in the railway line near Spuyten Duyvil station.
At least one eyewitness said the train - the 05:54 from Poughkeepsie to Grand Central Station - was travelling much faster than normal at the time.
None of the carriages went into the adjacent Hudson or Harlem rivers - although pictures from the scene suggest this nearly happened.
The train appeared to be going "a lot faster'' than normal as it approached the curve coming into the station, passenger Frank Tatulli told WABC-TV.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokeswoman Marjorie Anders said the curve where the derailment occurred was in a slow speed area, and that the train's black box recorder should be able to tell how fast the train was travelling.
Joel Zaritsky was travelling on the train to attend a dental convention in New York City.
"I was asleep and I woke up when the car started rolling several times," he told the Associated Press news agency.
This accident could have been worse, thanks God it has just been two deaths, according to Spanish's televion news, of these eleven critical injures. How is shown on the picture we can guess that it ran too fast at the entrance of this bend, where is supposed to be driven slower. If the train had fallen down in the river the tragic balance could have been increased.
This year we have had such an accident in Galicia also due to the excessive speed of a train in a bend. It was the worst accident's train in Spain.
The rail's technology has improved a lot but we have to take care with driver's mistakes. This accident has happened in New York but a train's crash can happens everywhere.
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