Metro-North brings back game-day service to Yankee Stadium

Looking for a way to get to the Yankees' home season opener? You may be in luck.

The Metro-North Railroad is bringing back extra game-day service to Yankee Stadium, just in time for the team’s season opener at home against the Toronto Blue Jays on April 5. Long Island Rail Road riders can access Metro-North by taking the train to Grand Central Madison.

For every game, Metro-North will operate shuttle trains, with stops between Grand Central Terminal, Harlem-125th Street and Yankees-East 153rd Street stations, officials said in a statement Tuesday.

Long Island baseball fans previously had to transfer to the subway or sit through what often would be significant traffic to get to the Bronx on game days.

"Now, instead of sitting on the LIE or the Major Deegan, they ride to Grand Central Madison, come right upstairs, and hop onto a Metro-North train that will take them to the stadium in about 16 minutes," Catherine Rinaldi, the Metro-North president and former interim president of the LIRR, said last year.

With Alfonso A. Castillo

By Tiffany Cusaac-Smith

tiffany.cusaac-smith@newsday.com@T_Cusaac

Education: Howard University 

Tiffany Cusaac-Smith came to Newsday in 2023 after being a race and history reporter at USA TODAY, where she wrote enterprise and spot articles examining how the past shapes the present. Previously, she worked as the race and justice reporter at the USA TODAY Network of New York, covering issues such as criminal justice reform, housing, environmental justice, health care and politics. At The Journal News/lohud.com in Westchester County, she covered Yonkers, the state's third-largest city. She also worked at The Associated Press in Atlanta.

Honors and Awards: Criminal justice reporting fellowship with the National Press Foundation;  New York News Publishers Association award for distinguished investigative reporting;  Contributed reporting for Best of Gannett honor; Member of Table Stakes, a program funded by the Knight-Lenfest Local News Transformation Fund and managed by the American Press Institute to transform local news.