When it comes to taking the train to the Yankees game, there's one more option to taking the B,D and 4 subway lines.

This baseball season, Yankees fans can for the first time take Metro-North to a station that is now nearing completion near the new Yankee Stadium in the Bronx's Concourse Village.

Officials announced Wednesday that the so-called Yankees-East 153rd Street station will open for business on May 23, and they hope they will entice fans to leave their cars at home.

"There'll be frequent service. It'll be fast," says Metro-North President Howard Permut. "You don't have to worry about any of the hassles or any of the concerns - 'There may be traffic, I have to leave a half-hour early.' You will get here when the train says you are getting here."

While the station will not open for another seven weeks, officials will keep a new pedestrian overpass for home games open until then. Beginning on Friday's exhibition game against the Cubs, fans can take the overpass to westside parking lots and ferries.

The overpass is 450 feet long and 25 feet wide, with an undulating roof and glass providing a view north.

The entrance to the overpass and the new station is in front of what used to be the Yankees team store at the old Yankee Stadium - only a four-block walk from the new stadium.

The station itself will feature two extra-wide island platforms serving four tracks and displaying real-time arrival information, and a 10,000-square-feet skylit mezzanine. Four elevators will provide full accessibility.

Officials expect up to 10,000 fans in the station on game days, and the rest of the time it will be a regular local stop on Metro-North's Hudson line.

"This station is a full-service station," says Permut. "It's open 365 days of the year, where it'll be serving people who live in the community who want to go up north, let's say to Tarrytown or Yonkers. People who want to park and ride, get off the [Major Deegan Expressway], this'll be, again, 15 minutes to Grand Central."

The station cost about $91 million, with the city contributing a little over 40 percent of the cost and the MTA paying the rest. Tickets to the station are on sale as of May 1.