153rd Street Rail Station - The Bronx, NY
Englert Metal Roofing Greets Rail Riders Heading To Yankee Stadium
For many riders, the most exciting stop along the entire MTA Metro-North Rail Line in New York City is also one of the newest—the 153rd Street Station in the Bronx. Completed in May 2009, it is the point of arrival and departure for baseball fans by the tens of thousands who flock to games at the new Yankee Stadium.
Passengers with an eye for metal construction products will be hard-pressed to miss one of the station’s most distinctive gateway features—a double-S-curved metal canopy roof that covers the stairs leading to and from the elevated platform. Those panels and others around the station were manufactured at the job site and installed by ADPI of Avenel, New Jersey. The two profiles utilized by the company include Series 1300 standing seam and T-Panel batten seam, both developed and marketed by Englert Inc. of Perth Amboy, NJ.
The new station provides daily local service on Metro-North’s Hudson Line and special service on the Harlem and New Haven Lines on game days. The project involved the construction of new platforms, a pedestrian bridge, stairs and mezzanines on either side of the bridge, and elevators capped by the Englert Series 1300 material. In order to accomplish the construction during the off season, extensive staging was involved. A portion of the existing pedestria