As of 2018[update], Harvey is the 102nd busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 471 weekday boardings.

The station is located two blocks from City Hall, and next to Pace's Harvey Transportation Center.

[3] Parking is available along Park Avenue and the west side of the tracks between 155th Street and a bridge for a Canadian National Railway line that crosses underneath the Metra Electric Main Branch, as well as the Amtrak line that runs parallel to it, carrying the City of New Orleans, Illini, and Saluki trains.

These tracks carried the intercity-trains of the Illinois Central until 1971, and most trains stopped here.

On the evening of October 12, 1979, a switchman incorrectly aligned a switch in front of an oncoming Amtrak train, leading it to go across a now-removed crossover into a stationary freight train.