Metro-North Railroad Harlem Line, originally chartered as the New York and Harlem Railroad, is an 82-mile commuter rail line running north from New York City to Wassaic, in eastern Dutchess County.
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16 Facts About Harlem Line
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Harlem Line begins underground at Grand Central Terminal, on the Park Avenue main line.
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The Woodlawn station is at 233rd Street, and it is north of here that the New Haven Harlem Line diverges to head east towards the Northeast Corridor.
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Harlem Line then goes under a bridge for the parkway, and it remains to the west of the tracks until Scarsdale station.
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Harlem Line ceded the title for the land that would be occupied by Fourth Avenue to the city in exchange for permission to occupy it.
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Harlem Line was not being completed as quickly as its charter required, so the New York State Legislature granted it multiple extensions to allow for the work to be completed.
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The New York and Harlem Railroad bought that company for $35,000 on March 9,1846, as it had failed to make any progress on the construction of the line.
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At the time, the four tracks between Woodlawn Junction and the Harlem Line River were almost completed, with a few hundred yards of rails needed to make some connections.
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On February 15,1897, trains on the Harlem Line Division started running over the new drawbridge over the Harlem Line River and the elevated structure connecting to it.
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On October 15,1897, a spacious new station in Harlem Line was opened at 125th Street, replacing a small, dingy station in the old Park Avenue open cut.
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In November 1907, the first electric train operated on the Harlem Line Division, running between Grand Central Terminal and Wakefield.
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Passengers that used the Upper Harlem Line Division were attracted to this cleaner, faster service.
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Harlem Line said that Metro-North should be working to improve the station and better market the service instead of closing it.
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At the time, Harlem Line ridership was growing, with an expected 31 million people using the line in 2020.
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North of Brewster is a connection with Metro-North's Beacon Harlem Line, which was purchased by Metro-North in 1995 for preservation for future use.
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