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The first part of the line opened on June 2, 1917 as a shuttle service between Kingsbridge Road and 149th Street, [9] [10] in advance of through service to the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, which began on July 17, 1918. [11] Woodlawn station opened on April 15, 1918 as part of the final extension of the IRT Jerome Avenue Line from Kingsbridge Road ...
An 1847 map of Lower Manhattan; the only railroad in Manhattan at that time was the New York and Harlem Railroad. The Harlem Line in its current form originated from the New York and Harlem Railroad (NY&H), which was the first streetcar company in the United States. It was franchised, on April 25, 1831, to run between the original city core in ...
Bedford Hills station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line, located in Bedford, New York. It is located next to the downtown business district, which was developed around the station. When the New York and Harlem Railroad was built though the community in 1847, Bedford Hills was known as Bedford Station. This name ...
Wakefield station (also known as Wakefield–East 241st Street station) is a commuter rail station on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line, serving the Wakefield section of the Bronx, New York City. The station is located on East 241st Street and is the northernmost stop in New York City on the Harlem Line.
Harlem Nights, 1989; King of New York, 1990; Paris Is Burning, 1990; Reversal of Fortune, 1990 (City College of New York in Harlem, was used to depict Harvard University.) Strictly Business, 1991; A Rage in Harlem, 1991; New Jack City, 1991; Jungle Fever, 1991; Juice, 1992; Who's the Man?, 1993; Sugar Hill, 1994; Above the Rim, 1994; A Great ...
The line was electrified and realigned in southern Mount Vernon by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad and commissioned the architectural firm of Warren and Wetmore to build a new station along the realigned segment in 1914, [4] although the bridge over Mount Vernon Avenue was built in 1910.
The current station was built in 1896–97 and 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.
Fleetwood station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line, located in the Fleetwood section of Mount Vernon, New York. As of August 2006, daily commuter ridership was 2,355 and there are 654 parking spots.