Comments on: The Lost Train Station of the Bronx – 138th Street, Mott Haven

By: Anthony Pardi

Anthony Pardi — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 21:37:56 +0000

In reply to Douglas McMillan. we lived nearby Woodlawn station and used to watch the rush hour Harlem line And New Haven RR trains back in the day before the platforms were raised Good times!

By: Anthony Pardi

Anthony Pardi — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 21:35:37 +0000

with the population surge and growth in Mott Haven section of the Bronx why isn’t the 138th Street Mott Haven Metro North station recreated?

By: James

James — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 07:23:51 +0000

I was watching “The Seven-Ups” with Roy Schneider. A scene, really scenes, at the Lucia funeral home (569 184th street, bronx ny) prompted me to look at maps, so I did. It is still there in the exact same location almost 50 years later. However, in one of the scenes, when the procession is leaving, in the background you can see the elevated train. But it isn’t there anymore. Totally gone. Tried to find out when, but couldn’t. Do you know when they took down the train in that area???
Thanks
James

By: Douglas McMillan

Douglas McMillan — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 16:57:55 +0000

As a kids, we would sit on the benches during the rush hour and watch the trains come through the station. Specifically the P motors of the New York Central on the Hudson line as they headed up state and the New Haven washboards and older MUs as they were head up to New Haven and beyond. I remember how the station platform would vibrate as the trains came through. I remember the NYC Transit strike when I got to ride one of the New York Central Prewar MUs from that 138th street station to Grand Central Station in order to go to work. When I lived in Albany, NY, I would take the train to the city before they switched to Penn Station, to Grand Central Station. As the train would pass through the 138th St station, I would remember sitting on the bench watching the trains. The station is gone now but the memories are still there.

By: butchbayley

butchbayley — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 23:37:34 +0000

My father took me there just before the building was demolished. He remembered when the 369th Harlem Hell Fighters marched across the Madison ave bridge to head to the second world war from the old station.

By: Frances Yozawitz

Frances Yozawitz — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 21:33:15 +0000

where in the Bronx??

By: History Underfoot

History Underfoot — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 11:54:44 +0000

Excellent post – great job.

By: countrypaul

countrypaul — Wed, 31 May 2017 04:15:12 +0000

I remember 138th St as a kid with my nose pressed up against the front window of the old NHRR commuter trains. I always wondered about the station, but as an NYC station, we never stopped there. I wondered why it had been taken down, but I don’t remember the sharper curve that was obviously the problem.

Great article – thank you!

By: William McCutcheon

William McCutcheon — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 21:10:21 +0000

I believe there is so much potential in areas such as Mott Haven and many others around the 5 Boros that could use refreshing and cleaning up and revitalizing. MOTT HAVEN for expample especially the area around LINCOLN HOSPITAL to 149th Street and Grand Concourse, FIRST there is the Teaching Hospital – Lincoln. the Bronx General Post OFfice, Hostos College, the resurgence of the South Bronx residential neighborhoods, other industrial businesses especially between 138th street and Lincoln over to the river, Yankee Stadium not far away and the Bronx Terminal Market BJs, etc to the west, and a host of other reasons — METRO NORTH should consider rebuilding MOTT HAVEN STATION @ 149th Street between the hospital and HOSOTS complexes wideining the bridge and repositioning the tracks so that there would be more usage on the Harlem line from there to Mount Vernon West and the HUSON LINE from MH to Spuyten Duyvil on the HUDSON and include a new MOTT HAVEN stop for New Haven Line along with Fordham to take passengers to eastern Westchester and Connecticut. It could act as a junction to Yankee stadium for shuttle also.

It could also have connection to the 149th Street subway of the 2 and 5 for passengers needing to get to other areas RATHER THAN having to go to HARLEM – 125th St. It would certainly bring in ore business as well as help aleviate corwding at 125th on both the MNR and the 4/5/6 subway lines.

Then there are buses along 149th street to Third Avenue eastbound and all the way to Riverside Drive in Manhattan westbound helping to feed commuters to upper manhattan as well as other areas.

Since there is residential building in the South Bronx/Mott Haven area specifically and over the next few years you will have a slew of new middle income residents and lower income residents who may begin to increase their earnings by being able to get to jobs if they can take the train from a MOTT HAVEN, 149th St. Station.

A 149th Street-Mott Haven station may even rival Fordham Road becase all THREE MNR lines would use it as both a beginning and ending point and if the railroad ever decided a transfer point.

JUST A THOUGHT.

By: Diego Carvajal

Diego Carvajal — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 00:06:18 +0000

Incredible read! The Bronx has such a fascinating history, and it’s a shame that more of it isn’t documented. It’s a sham that such a delicious piece of architecture was razed. Hopefully, you’ll report on other lost stations in the future. Great article!