Marble Hill (Metro-North Station)
The Marble Hill (also known as Marble Hill – West 225th Street) Metro-North Railroad station serves the residents of the Marble Hill neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City via the Hudson Line and is one of four express stations on that line south of Croton–Harmon seeing most trains minus peak hour trains to/from Poughkeepsie. It is 9.8 miles (15.8 km) from Grand Central Terminal and travel time to Grand Central is about 21 minutes. The station is below the Broadway Bridge on the north side of the Harlem Ship Canal in the Marble Hill neighborhood, near the Marble Hill – 225th Street station (1 train) on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway.
This station is frequently used by commuters going into and out of Manhattan, especially those whose destinations are on the West Side (including Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and Columbia University). With the easy subway transfer (albeit up seven flights of stairs), many commuters choose to save money in exchange for a slightly longer commute, thus avoiding the expensive surcharge for taking Metro-North directly into Grand Central Terminal or Harlem–125th Street. About a third of the station's daily ridership disembarks at Marble Hill to transfer to the subway.
Read more about Marble Hill (Metro-North Station): Platform and Tracks
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