$91M Metro-North Railroad Station Breaks Ground

NEW YORK CITY-New York State Gov. Eliot Spitzer, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Congressman José Serrano, Bronx Borough Pres. Adolfo Carrion and MTA executive director and CEO Elliot Sander broke ground Friday at Yankee Stadium on the Metro-North Railroad station, due to increase mass transit options to stadium. According to a report, the $91-million station, which will be completed in the second quarter of 2009, will reduce neighborhood traffic around the stadium on game days. It will also provide a year-round transit option that will support economic development in the resurgent South Bronx, providing improved access to the Gateway Center due to open at the Bronx Terminal Market in the fall of 2009.

Yankee owner George Steinbrenner said, “The Metro North Station will be a tremendous hit for the Yankees, our Yankees fans and for our new stadium. It’s absolutely great in terms of the convenience and public service it will afford.”

Kate Slevin, acting executive director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign notes, “The more the city and state work together to promote transit and limit parking supply at new stadiums and other developments in our city, the greener our future will become.”