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

The Metropolitan Elevated Railway (later acquired by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company) extended the Third Avenue Elevated Line to Fordham Station, bringing a rapid transit connection on July 1, 1901. Two major milestones of the early 20th Century brought an increase in ridership to the station.

The new Fordham Plaza entrance, across Fordham Road from the station building, in 2020 The reconstruction of the Harlem Line in this area lead to the creation of Fordham Plaza. Throughout the late-19th Century, the Harlem Division was widened and rebuilt into an open cut line as part of a grade elimination project, and Fordham Station was one of several in the Bronx that were rebuilt with a station house on a bridge over all four tracks, including Melrose, the former Morrisania and Tremont stations.

This aspect of the line would prove to be of little importance to the station until the next century. NY&NH was merged with the Hartford and New Haven Railroad to form the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in 1872, and the trackage rights along the Harlem Division remained intact. A Maagreement gave the New York and New Haven Railroad trackage rights over the NY&H from Williamsbridge south into New York City. The New York and Harlem was bought by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1864. 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. The station is among the busiest rail stations in the Bronx.

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. The platforms are situated just below street level and feature two expanded side platforms that serve eight cars each, on the outer tracks. Fordham station, also known as Fordham–East 190th Street station, is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem and New Haven Lines, serving Fordham Plaza in the Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City.