225 Street (1) - The SubwayNut

Marble Hill-225 Street is located at the northern end of the Broadway Bridge that the 1 train and crosses above Broadway, but is still technically within the confines of Manhattan even though the area is now physically connected to the Bronx. This is because the Broadway Bridge doesn't technically go over the Harlem River, but the Harlem Ship Canal, before that canal was built the Harlem River was reduced to a narrow stream as it went around the area called Marble Hill today. The ship canal was built to allow ships to pass, and the smaller river that was formerly making Manhattan an island here was filled in and this tiny portion of Manhattan has been taken away from the rest of it and attached to the mainland. That is where this subway station is. Deep below the station reached by a long staircase down to it on the banks of the Harlem River is Metro-North's Hudson Line and the Marble Hill Station, that is a quite well used subway transfer point.

The design of the station itself is a regular Broadway elevated station with two side platforms on the three-tracked line. The canopied areas are towards the southern end of the platform where the exits are to either side of Broadway and 225 Street, the downtown platform has a small station house with fare control alongside the platform, and staircases down to either side of Broadway. The uptown platform just has two staircases one of which ends at a High Entrance/Exit Turnstile to allow people to board uptown trains, the opposite one is an exit only High Exit Turnstile.

During the skip-stop area this stop was a 9 only stop, skipped by 1 trains during rush hours (the most northern stop of 3 stops 1 trains skipped).
Photos 1: December 21, 2003; 2-6: April 25, 2005; 7-9: February 12, 2006; 10 & 11: August 17, 2006; 12-15: December 27, 2010; 16-20: December 31, 2010; 21-26: November 2, 2012; 27 & 28: April 26, 2014; 29 & 30: July 5, 2014; 31: August 17, 2014

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Looking out the front window of a 1 train going over the Broadway Bridge where it will then enter 225 Street.

R33-ML #9017 leads the SMEE train of many colors on a fan trip as it crosses over the Broadway Bridge

R33-ML continues over the Broadway Bridge and through 225 Street

MTA workers and railfans watch the train of many colors comes to a stop in the middle of 225 Street

A R62A 1 train enters 225 Street-Marble Hill passing R33-ML #9017 that leads the SMEE train of many colors on a fan trip that is stopped on the center track at 225 Street.

A R62A 1 train passes the SMEE train of many colors that has stopped on the middle track at 225 Street-Marble Hill

R62A #2335 and an uptown 1 train leave 225 Street in the Blizzard of 2006

Workers sweep snow off the platform at 225 Street during the Blizzard of 2006

I almost fell down these unplowed stairs to street level at 225 Street

R62A #2170 and an uptown 1 leave 225 Street

R62A #1855 and a downtown 1 train enter 225 Street

Looking across to the streetstair from the downtown platform with a sign for Metro-North 1 block west

The MTA working sign for the replacement of the canopy roofs and rehabilitating the platform and street stairs

Approaching the 'entrance' to the uptown platform, just a High Entrance Turnstile, and a second High Entrance turnstile

A close up of the emergency exit gate, high entrance and high exit turnstile at 225 Street

View from street level of 225 Street and the vertical lifts of the Broadway bridge in the distance

The one entrance to the Downtown platform

The red station house and the opening into it, heading up the single street stair

Inside the station house, the token booth faces the 1 Downtown only turnstiles

The exit sign on the Downtown platform for 225 St & Broadway, Metro-North 1 block west

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