New Metro North Station A Home Run For Yankees Fans
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Taking the Metro North train to Yankees games was a home run for baseball fans this season.
The new Yankee Stadium stop on the Hudson Line, adjacent to the new Yankee Stadium in Highbridge, Bronx, opened in May for both baseball fans and Bronx residents.
The $91 million station, which took two years to build, includes a 10,000-square-feet mezzanine and a new pedestrian overpass.
"We feel it was very successful. We carried almost a half-million people to the games in our first season," said Robert MacLagger of Metro North Development. "We reached a high of 6,000 people during the World Series per game, for Game 6 of the World Series."
However, not enough people use the stop when there's no baseball.
Metro North says it will try to better promote the station to Bronx residents and workers.