Yankee Stadium (Metro-North station)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article or section contains information about a planned or expected future railway station.
It may contain information of a speculative nature and the content may change dramatically as the construction and/or completion of the railway station approaches, and more information becomes available.

Yankee Stadium is a new Metro-North Railroad station that is currently under construction. As planned, it will provide service on all three east-of-Hudson Metro North lines (Hudson, Harlem and New Haven). It will offer service 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 station will function as a Hudson Line local station outside of game days.^[1]

The MTA estimates that the project will cost $91 million, including $52 million that it will provide and $39 million that will be provided by New York City.^[2] 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 that was canceled due to local community opposition,^{[citation needed]} and $5 Million from an existing account that had money set aside for new Yankee Stadium station in prior budgets.^{[citation needed]}

Transit watchdog groups dispute this.^{[citation needed]} They say this money will have to be diverted from other MTA transportation projects in the region. 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. The Yankees have said the Metro-North project is separate from their stadium project.