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Harlem–125th Street (Metro-North station)

Harlem–125th Street
MNRR NH-Line-Train 125th-St.jpg
View from inbound train as an outbound New Haven Line train departs.
Location 101 East 125th Street
and 1818 Park Avenue
East Harlem, New York, NY 10035
Coordinates 40°48′19″N 73°56′20″W / 40.8052°N 73.9390°W / 40.8052; -73.9390Coordinates: 40°48′19″N 73°56′20″W / 40.8052°N 73.9390°W / 40.8052; -73.9390
Owned by Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Line(s)
Platforms 2 island platforms
Tracks 4
Connections New York City Subway:
"4" train "5" train "6" train "6" express train trains at Lexington Avenue
Local Transit NYCT Bus: M35, M60 SBS, M98, M100, M101, Bx15
Construction
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Fare zone 1
History
Opened 1896
Electrified 700V (DC) third rail
Services
Preceding station   MTA NYC logo.svg Metro-North Railroad   Following station
Terminus
Harlem Line
toward Wassaic
Hudson Line
toward Poughkeepsie
New Haven Line
New Canaan Branch
toward New Canaan
Danbury Branch
(limited)
toward Danbury
  Former services  
New York Central Railroad
toward Chicago
Water Level Route
Terminus
toward Peekskill
Hudson Division
Terminus
Harlem Division
toward Chatham

Harlem–125th Street is a Metro-North Railroad commuter rail hub station in New York City. It is located in East Harlem, Manhattan, at East 125th Street and Park Avenue, serving the Hudson Line, Harlem Line and New Haven Line. The station also serves as an important transfer point between the Metro-North trains and the IRT Lexington Avenue Line (4 5 6 <6> trains) for access to the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It is the only station besides Grand Central Terminal that serves all three lines east of the Hudson River. Trains leave for Grand Central Terminal, as well as to the Bronx and the northern suburbs, regularly.

The station was built in 1896–97 and designed by Morgan O'Brien, New York Central and Hudson River Railroad principal architect. It replaced an earlier one that was built in 1874 when the New York Central and the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, the ancestors of today's Metro-North, moved the tracks from an open cut to the present-day elevated viaduct. The original station on the site was built in 1844, when the trains ran at grade-level on what is now Park Avenue. That station was demolished to make way for the open cut.


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