Thu 16 Oct 2008
How Fair is Yankee Stadium Fare?
Posted by TJ under Yankee Stadium
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Work is under way on the new Metro-North station at Yankee Stadium, and the railroad has proposed its fare for trips to the stop. Metro-North suggests it be in the same fare zone as all Metro-North stops in the Bronx; in short, if you’re paying five bucks to get from Grand Central to Fordham, you’ll pay that same five bucks to get to Yankee Stadium. A hearing will go down Nov. 17 at the Bronx DA headquarters to decide on the final fare.
The stop is located on the Hudson Line, just south of the Morris Heights stop. If you want to reach it from the Harlem or New Haven Lines, you stand to pay between 75 cents and a buck extra on a “via” fare linking you from Manhattan (125th, I presume) over the river to Yankee Stadium.
The new Yankee Stadium stop opens in the second quarter of 2009, just in time for the Bronx Bombers as they set out to defend this year’s third place finish in the AL East.