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Bronx - Remnant of "Polo Grounds Shuttle" Near Yankee Stadium
The structure coming in from below on the left is all that remains of the Polo Grounds Shuttle extension of the 9th Avenue El. A bit more existed a few years ago but it was taken down to make way for the new Yankee Stadium. Until about 1940, it extended across the Harlem River to the Polo Grounds and then down 8th and 9th Avenue to South Ferry. Later, the part from the Polo Grounds at 155th Street and 8th Avenue in Manhattan (north limit of Harlem) to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx was kept to allow baseball fans easy access to both stadiums and their parking lots. The tracks from the Shuttle rise and merge with the tracks of the Jerome Avenue line before the next station to the north.
When the baseball Giants stopped using the Polo Grounds in the late 1950s, most of the remaining structure was removed. The Polo Grounds was again used by the baseball Mets for their first few seasons (saw a twi-night doubleheader there around 1962). When Shea Stadium opened in Queens, the Polo Grounds was torn down and replaced by high rise public housing. The stub here was retained because it carries power and signal cable (visible near the upper left corner).
The Shuttle crossed the Harlem River on a bridge and then ran in a tunnel through a ridge on the way here.
Bronx - Remnant of "Polo Grounds Shuttle" Near Yankee Stadium
The structure coming in from below on the left is all that remains of the Polo Grounds Shuttle extension of the 9th Avenue El. A bit more existed a few years ago but it was taken down to make way for the new Yankee Stadium. Until about 1940, it extended across the Harlem River to the Polo Grounds and then down 8th and 9th Avenue to South Ferry. Later, the part from the Polo Grounds at 155th Street and 8th Avenue in Manhattan (north limit of Harlem) to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx was kept to allow baseball fans easy access to both stadiums and their parking lots. The tracks from the Shuttle rise and merge with the tracks of the Jerome Avenue line before the next station to the north.
When the baseball Giants stopped using the Polo Grounds in the late 1950s, most of the remaining structure was removed. The Polo Grounds was again used by the baseball Mets for their first few seasons (saw a twi-night doubleheader there around 1962). When Shea Stadium opened in Queens, the Polo Grounds was torn down and replaced by high rise public housing. The stub here was retained because it carries power and signal cable (visible near the upper left corner).
The Shuttle crossed the Harlem River on a bridge and then ran in a tunnel through a ridge on the way here.