This version of the Yankee Stadium Station was built as a temporary station for service only during the New York City Transit Strike in December 2005. The temporary station was very simple with steps up to short plywood platforms that aligned with the doors of MU equipment, built in a small parking lot, near the overpass to additional parking and the Game-Day Ferries from Yankee Stadium. Also out of plywood a small shed was built with two improve ticket windows that sold special $4 STRIKE tickets, service were shuttle trains to and from GCT only (stopping at 125th Street). General Service to the station and the park and ride lot only lasted for two days of the three-day strike (it took Metro-North a day to make the station operational, and to put their special strike schedule with more service to the Bronx in service). The strike began on December 20, 2005, and ended on December 22.
After the strike ended it was announced that service to Yankee Stadium would continue to be provided on December 23, 2005 until 11:00AM, so I decided to take the last train out at 10:42AM, which was an uneventful ride into Grand Central. The MNR staff at the station told me I was their only passenger that entire morning after they had handled thousands over the previous two days before. Lots of police barricades for lines and various police cars were in the adjacent small parking lot and staging area.
All Photos: 23 December, 2005
The Temporary platforms at Yankee Stadium station viewed from the overpass that leads from the home plate entrance to the ferry dock and additional parking
The parking lot that was the waiting area, when the Yankee Stadium Station handled thousands of passengers the day before, it has become a parking lot for police cars again
The temporary platform staircases with the police barricades that corralled the thousands of passengers using the station during the strike on the previous two days
M1 #8116 on the Last Yankee Stadium Shuttle train until a permanent station is built or another NYC Transit Strike happens
Looking down the temporary short wooden platform staircases at the Yankee Stadium Station
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