Yankees– East 153 St — Local services in New York

Currently the newest Metro North Station in NYC (as of July 2016), this station is a bit far from Yankee Stadium. The entrance is extremely wide and there's a LONG passageway to the Mezzanine of the Station which is ALSO extremely wide (for the crowds coming/leaving to/from Baseball games. (WHOLE station is ADA complaint) The Platforms are an average width for Metro North platforms, and can handle full length trains. Regular train service from here is about every 35-65 minutes, depending on the time and day. On Stadium days however, there's shuttle trains that only serve this station, 125th, and Grand Central...as well as trains from the other 2 main branches (Harlem & New Haven) that come to this station via a Wye connection(Trains about every 10-15 minutes). It's also an extremely clean...

The station location is very convenient. My issue is with the advanced notice of track changes at this station. Announcements happen way to late. Sometimes when the train is already pulling into the station on a different track. Forcing people to run up and down stairs. Also the train operators are not sypethic to that situation by pulling away from the station immediately. I understand that they have to keep a schedule but common man allot of us are no lo ger...

Mta has made it very simple and easy to get to a Yankee game (Hudson line) from orange, dutchess and surrounding areas. Not sure about other mta lines but Hudson line they have express trains maybe about 4 stops then runs straight to 153rd. You exit and walk to stadium mostly under a mezzanine with one street to cross that police are at....