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225th Street Station · Opened 1/27/1907

Local station with three tracks and two side platforms. The south end of the station is directly attached to the Broadway Bridge over the Harlem River Ship Canal.

The line of the original Harlem River is preserved in the street pattern in Marble Hill just north of the station. The river flowed in an oxbow curve between 228th Street and 230th Street on the north and between Johnson Avenue and Terrace View Avenue on the west. Since the river was the original delimeter between Manhattan and the Bronx, that puts Marble Hill and the 225th St. Station politically in Manhattan. The canal was built in 1895 and the original river bed was filled in in 1914.

This station replaces an original one at 230th Street and Bailey Avenue, adjacent to the New York Central's Putnam Division station. The Putnam Division terminated here; the idea was to let riders from the upper Bronx and Westchester County use the IRT to continue into the city. But, the Putnam, lacking a Manhattan terminal of its own, suffered the same fate as the New York, Westchester, and Boston. It saw little business and it steadily dwindled out of existence. By 1907 the IRT was extended to 242nd Street and the original last stop was removed. The New York Central placed a station just to the west of the IRT's station along West 225th Street. The transfer with today's Metro-North Hudson line trains is not very convenient, but Metro-North trains can be short ended here in case of blockage farther south. Riders are discharged and sent a block or two and up long stairs to 225th Street station.

Artwork: Elevated Nature I-IV, Wopo Holup (1991)


(image 101103) (173k, 820x620)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 225th Street
Route: 1
Car: R62A (Bombardier, 1984-1987) 2345
Photo by: Jorge Catayi
Date: 4/5/2009
Viewed (this week/total): 3 / 247


(image 88897) (111k, 820x620)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 225th Street
Route: Transit Museum Nostalgia Train
Car: R33-WF 9306
Photo by: Gary Chatterton
Date: 8/2/2008
Viewed (this week/total): 4 / 821


(image 93015) (278k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 225th Street
Photo by: Zach Summer
Date: 8/2/2008
Notes: Exterior street view of station
Viewed (this week/total): 5 / 940


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 225th Street
Photo by: Zach Summer
Date: 8/2/2008
Notes: Downtown street entrance
Viewed (this week/total): 6 / 866


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 225th Street
Route: 1
Car: R62A (Bombardier, 1984-1987) 2380
Photo by: Andrew Johnson
Date: 7/3/2008
Viewed (this week/total): 5 / 692


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 225th Street
Route: 1
Car: R62A (Bombardier, 1984-1987) 1865
Photo by: Michael Hodurski
Date: 6/24/2008
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 603


(image 88741) (238k, 1044x699)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 225th Street
Route: 1
Car: R62A (Bombardier, 1984-1987) 2270
Photo by: Michael Hodurski
Date: 6/24/2008
Viewed (this week/total): 0 / 516


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 225th Street
Route: 1
Car: R62A (Bombardier, 1984-1987) 2355
Photo by: Michael Hodurski
Date: 6/24/2008
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 506


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 225th Street
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
Date: 6/14/2008
Notes: Platform view.
Viewed (this week/total): 3 / 540


(image 86145) (224k, 1044x791)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 225th Street
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
Date: 6/14/2008
Notes: Platform view.
Viewed (this week/total): 3 / 746


(image 86144) (237k, 1044x791)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 225th Street
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
Date: 6/14/2008
Notes: Station entrance.
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 900


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 225th Street
Car: R62A (Bombardier, 1984-1987)
Photo by: Peter Ehrlich
Date: 5/2/2008
Notes: First car of inbound train about to cross onto Broadway Bridge.
Viewed (this week/total): 4 / 809


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 225th Street
Car: R62A (Bombardier, 1984-1987) 1847
Photo by: Peter Ehrlich
Date: 5/2/2008
Viewed (this week/total): 6 / 861


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 225th Street
Car: R62A (Bombardier, 1984-1987) 2395
Photo by: Peter Ehrlich
Date: 5/2/2008
Viewed (this week/total): 7 / 760


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 225th Street
Route: 1
Car: R62A (Bombardier, 1984-1987) 1850
Photo by: Gary Chatterton
Date: 3/11/2008
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 829


(image 84466) (128k, 820x620)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 225th Street
Route: 1
Car: R62A (Bombardier, 1984-1987) 2216
Photo by: Gary Chatterton
Date: 3/11/2008
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 757


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 225th Street
Route: 1
Car: R62A (Bombardier, 1984-1987) 2395
Photo by: Gary Chatterton
Date: 3/11/2008
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 738


(image 84469) (98k, 820x620)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 225th Street
Route: 1
Car: R62A (Bombardier, 1984-1987) 2361
Photo by: Gary Chatterton
Date: 3/11/2008
Viewed (this week/total): 0 / 571


(image 62392) (197k, 1044x788)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 225th Street
Route: 1
Car: R62A (Bombardier, 1984-1987) 1890
Photo by: John Barnes
Date: 3/20/2007
Viewed (this week/total): 7 / 1931


(image 68307) (65k, 800x600)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT West Side Line
Location: 225th Street
Route: 1
Car: R62A (Bombardier, 1984-1987)
Photo by: Phillip Lee
Date: 2/14/2007
Viewed (this week/total): 7 / 1681


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