Yankee Stadium Station (Metro North)

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The Yankee Stadium Metro North Station is a planned new Metro North Commuter Railroad station. As planned, it will provide service on all three east of the Hudson Metro North lines to and from the New Yankee Stadium in the Bronx when the New York Yankees are playing home baseball games.

Metro North has existing, active Hudson Line track near the site. Some connections will need to be altered to provide New Haven Line and Harlem Line service.

The MTA estimates that the project will cost $45 Million. The cost of the new station is not without controversy, given the tremendous need for money for other infrastructure projects on the MTA rail network. Transit watchdog groups say this money will have to be diverted from other MTA transportation projects in the region; the MTA says it will not. Several groups have urged the Yankees to pay for part, if not all, of the station's cost, since the Yankees would be the prime beneficiary of this station, and no service is planned to the station during times when they Yankees are not playing. The Yankees have said the Metro-North project is separate from their stadium project.

The MTA said funds from the other infrastructure projects will not be used to build the new Yankee Stadium station. The MTA plans to pay for the new station with $40 Million from an account set aside to build a new subway connection to LaGuardia Airport (the LaGuardia Airport connection was cancelled due to local community opposition) and $5 Million from an existing account that had money set aside for new Yankee Stadium station in prior budgets.

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