University Heights (Metro-North station)

University Heights
The University Heights Metro-North station, on the Hudson Line.
Location	West Fordham Road at the Major Deegan Expressway University Heights, Bronx, New York
Coordinates	40°51′41″N 73°54′53″W / 40.8614°N 73.9147°W / 40.8614; -73.9147Coordinates: 40°51′41″N 73°54′53″W / 40.8614°N 73.9147°W / 40.8614; -73.9147
Owned by	Metro-North Railroad
Line(s)	Hudson Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	3
Connections	NYCT Bus: Bx12, Bx12 SBS
Other information
Fare zone	2
Electrified	700V (DC) third rail
Traffic
Passengers (2006)	5720  0%
Services
Preceding station   Metro-North Railroad   Following station Morris Heights toward Grand Central Hudson Line Marble Hill toward Poughkeepsie   Former services   New York Central Railroad Marble Hill toward Peekskill Hudson Division Morris Heights toward New York City Kings Bridge toward Brewster Putnam Division Morris Heights toward Sedgwick Avenue

The University Heights (also known as University Heights – West 207th Street) Metro-North Railroad station serves residents of the University Heights neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City, via the Hudson Line. Trains leave for Manhattan every 25 to 35 minutes on weekdays. It is 8.69 miles (13.99 km) from Grand Central Terminal, and travel time to Grand Central is approximately 19 minutes.

It is located between the Harlem River and the Major Deegan Expressway. Access to the platform is via a staircase from the pedestrian walkway on the south side of University Heights Bridge. It is also near the Roberto Clemente State Park.

The station has operated since the days of the Spuyten Duyvil and Port Morris Railroad as well as the New York and Putnam Railroad late in the 19th century, though not in its present form. It was originally located north of the former 180th Street (now Osbourne Place), while a nearby Fordham Heights station was located at West Fordham Road. At some point before the 1920s, the two stations were merged, with the merge of the stations and demolition of the Fordham Heights Station planned as early as 1906. North of Fordham Road, the former NY&P branched off to the northeast on its way to Brewster.

Throughout much of the 20th Century, University Heights station contained a station house over the tracks along the south side of West Fordham Road. As with many NYCRR stations in the Bronx, the station became a Penn Central station upon the merger between NYC and Pennsylvania Railroad in 1968. Penn Central continued commuter service and began tearing the station house down in 1975, before until it was taken over by Conrail in 1976, which turned the station over to Metro-North Railroad in 1983.