The Harlem-125th Street train station serves residents of the Harlem neighborhood of New York City's borough of Manhattan and commuters who work in Harlem via Metro-North Railroad's Hudson, Harlem Valley and New Haven Divisions. It is the only station besides Grand Central Terminal which serves all three Metro-North lines. Trains leave for Grand Central Terminal and upstate New York regularly. Harlem-125th Street is used by detraining passengers only when traveling towards Grand Central, and by boarding passengers only when traveling upstate. It is 4.19 miles from Grand Central, and travel time thereto is approximately ten minutes.

The current Harlem-125th Street Station was built in 1896-97 and was 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.

A recent renovation of the 1897 structure has cleared out a century's worth of neglect and deterioration.

Appearances in Film and on TV

Harlem-125th Street Station has often been used as a setting for film and TV, where it usually stands in for an elevated subway station.

• U.S. Marshals, 1998.

See also

• Manhattan
• New York City
• List of Metro-North Railroad stations

External link

• Harlem-125th Street station
• Abandoned Stations: Harlem