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Yankees are in the Bronx Thursday. MTA's expanding service for the home opener.
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Louis C. Hochman
Published Mar 23, 2025
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The Yankees are in the Bronx Thursday for Opening Day, starting their season against the Milwaukee Brewers. As the 2024 American League champions return, so do the Yankee Clipper trains — game-day one-seat rides on the Metro North Harlem and New Haven lines to Yankees-E. 153rd Street station.
The New York Transit Museum will also offer its annual Opening Day nostalgia train rides aboard a 1917 IRT Lo-V and the Train of Many Colors. They depart from the 4 train platform at Grand Central at noon Thursday, then run nonstop to the stadium station. The nostalgia train rides just cost a normal subway fare, but there’s no return trip aboard these special train cars. Expect the trip to take about 25 minutes.
The IRT Lo-V began service in 1917. “With rattan seats, ceiling fans and drop sash windows, the train hearkens back to an earlier age of subway travel and provides a photogenic counterpoint to the new home of the New York Yankees,” the MTA says in an announcement about its service options for Opening Day.
The Train of Many Colors is made up of 19 IRT cars manufactured over the course of nearly half a century, including the famous “Redbirds” and “Bluebirds.”
The MTA has a breakdown of options for getting to Yankee Stadium via the city subways and buses, Metro-North Railroad, the LIRR and Access-A-Ride. If you are driving and plan to park in a lot or garage, you’re going to want to check your options with City Parking.
The game starts at 3:05 p.m., so plan accordingly.
It should be an exciting day. For one thing, we may get some clarity on what exactly counts as a “well-groomed beard.” Here’s hoping we still hear Sinatra’s “New York, New York” on the way out.
The Mets begin their 2025 season Thursday at Houston. Their home opener against the Toronto Blue Jays is at Citi Field on April 4.
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Louis C. Hochman
After about two decades in (mostly) New Jersey-focused commercial print, digital and digital-but-radio-adjacent news, Lou stumbled into member-supported news in early 2021, as the editor and CEO of Montclair Local. There, he (hopes he) expanded enterprise, brought more sophistication to digital storytelling and moved the nonprofit newsroom closer to long-term financial sustainability. He helped lead the Local to its fourth consecutive General Excellence award from the New Jersey Press Association — the NJPA's highest honor with judges noting the paper's work to strip away layers of government opacity, to hold power to account, to make news accessible for more members of the community, to share the stories and concerns of more facets of the community and to tell compelling stories across multiple media. He's excited to continue the same ethic — news as a public service — at NYPR as the New Jersey and suburbs editor, drawing on the extraordinary talents of reporters including Karen Yi and Nancy Solomon. Lou lives in Philly (that commute!) with his partner and their two cats, about whom and about which he speaks incessantly.
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