The station has two high-level side platforms, each eight cars long, that serve the outer tracks of the four-track Harlem Line.

The structure that serves the gardens itself on the north side of the tracks still exists, while the old station house on the southbound platforms was torn down.

This was one day after New York Central Railroad electrified the Harlem Line in reaction to being chastised in the press after the Park Avenue Tunnel accident of 1902.

Penn Central's continuous financial despair throughout the 1970s forced them to turn over their commuter service to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

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