Harlem – 125th Street (Metro-North station)

Harlem–125th Street
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)	Harlem Line   Hudson Line   New Haven Line   New Canaan Branch   Danbury Branch   Waterbury Branch
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	4
Connections	New York City Subway:   trains at Lexington Avenue NYCT Bus: M1 (NB), M35, M60 SBS to LGA, M98, M100, M101, Bx15
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	1896
Electrified	700V (DC) third rail
Services
Preceding station   Metro-North Railroad   Following station Grand Central Terminus Harlem Line Melrose toward Wassaic Hudson Line Yankees – East 153rd Street toward Poughkeepsie New Haven Line Fordham toward New Haven State Street, Waterbury, Danbury, or New Canaan New Canaan Branch Fordham toward New Canaan Danbury Branch (limited) Greenwich toward Danbury   Former services   New York Central Railroad 138th Street toward Chicago Water Level Route New York City Terminus 138th Street toward Peekskill Hudson Division New York City Terminus Harlem Division 138th Street 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.