What a kick in the shins!
Metro-North isn’t offering Connecticut and Westchester fans direct service to the New York City Football Club’s home opener Sunday at Yankee Stadium — because soccer isn’t as popular as baseball.
More than 35,000 tickets — and counting — have been sold for the match against the New England Revolution, but the railroad says the demand isn’t enough to add the extra service.
Soccer fans traveling on the Harlem and New Haven lines will have to transfer at the 125th Street stop and pick up a shuttle to Yankee Stadium — a switch that will tack on as much as 22 minutes to their trip.
“We, at this point, don’t feel there would be enough ridership to justify running direct service from the New Haven and Harlem lines,” an MTA spokesman said, citing analysis of past soccer games played at the Stadium.
