The station building sits above the tracks on the Fordham Road (East 190th Street) overpass, and still bears the name New York Central Railroad on its facade.

[3][4] Most service is provided to Grand Central Terminal by local Harlem Line trains from and to North White Plains.

It is part of the Fordham Plaza complex, served by several MTA and Bee-Line bus routes that operate through the Bronx and Westchester County.

The station has two high-level side platforms, each eight cars long, serving the outer tracks of the four-track line.

It is a terminal for routes serving the Bronx and southern Westchester County: The New York and Harlem Railroad laid tracks through Fordham as far back as 1841, and a station is known to have existed shortly afterwards.

Pelham Avenue station was the northern terminus of the line until it was extended to Bronx Park Terminal ten months later.

As a result, the Third Avenue Railway also began to operate from Fordham Plaza converting it into the major transit hub that it is to this day.

Metro-North extended the platforms to handle longer trains in the 1990s, and removed the luncheonette and other local businesses that operated from the station.

The renovation's scope included a new entrance leading directly to Webster Avenue and 193rd Street, a new permanent artwork, and a rebuilt northbound platform.

Both platforms received rehabilitated elevators, new LED lighting, new benches and canopies, real-time information monitors, and public address systems.