New York Transit Museum Ran Annual IRT Lo-V Nostalgia Train and Train of Many Colors from Grand Central to Yankee Stadium
For First Time Ever, Long Islanders Can Take Train to Grand Central, Connecting with Direct Service to Yankee Stadium via Metro-North or the Subway
Metro-North Yankee Clippers Return, Offering Direct Service to Yankee Stadium on Hudson, Harlem and New Haven Lines; All Hudson Line Trains Make Additional Stop at Yankee Stadium During Game Days
Subways, Buses, and Paratransit Provide Convenient Service to All Yankee Home Games
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Hundreds of New York Yankees fans joined New York City Transit President Richard Davey on the New York Transit Museum’s 1917 IRT Lo-V Nostalgia train for the Yankees home opener. Fans boarded the train at Grand Central for an express train unlike any other to Yankee Stadium. The train ride followed a news conference where Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) leaders reminded Yankees fans that the fastest way to Yankee Stadium is via public transportation.
With the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) terminal at Grand Central, Yankees fans anywhere in the MTA region, from Montauk to New Haven, have easy transit access to Yankee Stadium, for the first time ever.
“We welcome back baseball fans with plenty of service to get them to the stadium in time for first pitch,” said Metro-North Railroad President and LIRR Interim President Catherine Rinaldi. “This year the commuter railroads offer service to Yankee Stadium from New Haven to Ronkonkoma, with LIRR service now at Grand Central where customers can connect to a Metro-North gameday shuttle or a Hudson Line train. For Hudson Valley and Connecticut customers, the return of the Yankee Clippers offers one-seat rides to the stadium. Leave the driving to us this season.”
“If Yankee Stadium is not the most mass transit friendly ballpark in the league, it is certainly the most diverse,” said New York City Transit President Richard Davey. “Two subway lines, five bus routes and an Access-A-Ride stop right at the front of the stadium—and that’s just New York City Transit. Yankees fans, and those visiting, have nothing but options and we will be here to get you to and from the game.”
“There is nothing like baseball season in the Bronx, and with so many options available mass transit is a no brainer way to the game,” said MTA Acting Chief Customer Officer Shanifah Rieara. “No matter where you are in the MTA region, if you can catch a bus or train, there is a quick way to the ballgame. The only thing a customer has to do is see which of the many ways works best for them.”
The MTA will be providing the following service options to get to all New York Yankees home games.
Take LIRR to Grand Central
The opening of Grand Central Madison makes it easier than ever for Yankees fans on Long Island to get to the game.
Prior to the terminal’s opening, a Yankees fan coming in from Long Island would have taken a longer subway ride from Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr, or transferred twice on the subway, or left Penn Station and walked to Herald Square to connect to a train.
Now, a LIRR customer can take a one-seat ride into Grand Central and finish their trip either on a Metro-North shuttle or the train. Either option can take a customer to the stadium in less than 30 minutes from Grand Central.
Metro-North's Yankee Clippers
Metro-North Railroad announced the return of its “Yankee Clipper” trains as part of the new train schedules that took effect Sunday, March 26. The Yankee Clippers are special game-day trains which provide one-seat rides from the Harlem and New Haven lines to Yankees-E 153 St station for all evening and weekend home games.
In addition to the Yankee Clipper trains, Metro-North will operate shuttle trains for all evening and weekend games between Grand Central Terminal, Harlem-125th Street and Yankees-E 153 St stations for fans departing from Manhattan or who are transferring at Harlem-125th station from additional Harlem and New Haven line trains. Also, Metro-North will operate shuttle trains after weekday day games from Yankees-E 153rd Street to Harlem-125th Street and Grand Central.
Many Hudson Line trains stop at Yankees-E 153 St station normally, and many express trains to and from Croton-Harmon and Poughkeepsie make a stop at the stadium on game days. For afternoon games customers can take any Hudson Line train to the game and will be accommodated by shuttle service following the game.
New York City Subway
The subway’s 161 St-Yankee Stadium station, with service on the and lines, is right in front of the stadium at the corner of 161 St and River Av. trains stop at 161 St-Yankee Stadium during rush hours only, while and trains currently stop at 161 St-Yankee Stadium at all times.
Starting Friday, April 28, trains will resume peak-direction rush hour express service in the Bronx, however, Bronx-bound rush hour trains will continue to stop at 161 St-Yankee Stadium on game days.
New York City Buses
The Bx6, Bx6 SBS, and Bx13 stop near the stadium at E. 161 St and River Av. In addition, the Bx1 and Bx2 both stop at E. 161 St and the Grand Concourse, a three-block walk east to the stadium.
Customers can use the real-time bus arrival tracking feature on the MYmta app before boarding.
Access-A-Ride
Access-A-Ride has a designated stop in front of Yankee Stadium. To book a trip to the stadium, customers can call (877)-337-2017 or (718)-393-4999 and press prompt #2.
New York Transit Museum’s Nostalgia Train is Back
The New York Transit Museum offered fans a once-in-a-season way to show off their pinstripe pride and ride to Yankee Stadium in style, aboard a 1917 IRT Lo-V train and the Train of Many Colors.
For one day only, the IRT Lo-V Nostalgia Train and Train of Many Colors ran from Grand Central to Yankee Stadium. The IRT Lo-V Nostalgia Train left the uptown train platforms of 42 St-Grand Central at approximately 11:00 a.m., and traveled non-stop on the Lexington Avenue Line, arriving at 161 St-Yankee Stadium in about 25 minutes. The Train of Many Colors arrived after to carry more riders to the stadium.
The ride to the Bronx took fans to the stadium gates with plenty of time before the first pitch at 1:05 p.m.
Originally operated by the Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT) system, The IRT Lo-V began service in 1917. The vintage train cars and hundreds of other similar cars served subway customers a few years before the first pitch was thrown at the original Yankee Stadium. With rattan seats, ceiling fans and drop sash windows, the train hearkens back to an earlier age of subway travel and provides a photogenic counterpoint to the new home of the New York Yankees.
The Train of Many Colors includes a selection of cars manufactured in the 1960s: the R-33, R-33WF and R-36 cars. With “Tartar Red” and “Gunn Red” redbirds, Kale Green "Green Machines", blue-and-silver "Platinum Mist" and the striking two-tone robin's egg blue and cream “Bluebird” paint schemes, the train represents several different eras in New York City subway history.