125th Street (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line)

125th Street (formerly Manhattan Street), is a local station on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 125th Street and Broadway, where Morningside Heights meets Harlem in an area known as Manhattanville, it is served by the  train at all times.

It is the only station on the short elevated Manhattan Valley Viaduct, which bridges the Manhattan Valley from 122nd to 135th Streets and has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983. This viaduct allows the trains to remain relatively level and avoid steep grades while traversing the valley. The overall length is 2174 ft and the steel arch across 125th Street is 168.5 ft long.

Platform stairs and street escalators lead to a mezzanine under the tracks that allows access to both uptown and downtown trains from either side of Broadway. The express track that passes through the station is currently unused in revenue service.