Flatbush and Nostrand Avenues to 241st Street and White Plains Road
North refers to trains to 241st street and South refers to trains to Flatbush Avenue
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Flatbush Avenue / Brooklyn College (on Nostrand Avenue at Flatbush Avenue) opened 08/23/1920 and has Two Tracks, two wall platforms which are connected at the South end. There are vent chambers. The South exit leads to Avenue H and has a ghost booth and p/t HEET access, and is not ADA compliant while the Center exit on the Manhattan bound side leads to South side of Flatbush Avenue and is ADA compliant with elevator There is another p/t exit on the s/b side, the booth is open only during rush hours, HEET access other times of the day . The artwork is entitled “Flatbush Floogies” and is by Muriel Castanis and was installed in 1996. The art is near the Avenue H entrance. This station was renovated. Future plans for installation of a small storage yard South of the station which will require reconfiguration of the station. A tower is at the North end of the northbound platform. There is a platform level crossover at the Avenue H exit. During rush hours, it is common, but not always the case for 5 trains to use the west pocket track, while 2 trains use the east pocket track (The same side as the f/t and ADA fare control area.) All other times when the 5 is not running, the 2 uses either tracks/
Newkirk Avenue (on Nostrand Avenue at Newkirk Avenue) opened 08/23/1920 and has no crossover or crossunder ands has two tracks, two wall platforms. The South exit is to Newkirk Avenue while the North exit (southbound platform only) leads to Avenue D, The tiles and the exit staircase both suggest it was added in the early 1960s There is a newsstand on the northbound platform. The station has vent chambers. The booth has the station name spelled as “New Kirk” while the signs have it as one word! (Correct spelling is one word!)
Beverl(e)y Road (on Nostrand Avenue at Beverl(e)y Road) opened 08/23/1920 and has two tracks two wall platforms, no crossover or crossunder and no southbound booth. Platforms are offset (rear of platforms are longer). Faux IND tile and tablets show the name as Beverly while booth and exit signs near the center exit shows name as Beverley. There are arguments in favor of both spellings and this site will not join in the disputes over which is correct. There are vent chambers. This site will show the name as “Beverl(e)y”
Church Avenue (on Nostrand Avenue at Church Avenue) opened 08/23/1920 and has two tracks, two wall platforms, full ADA and no southbound booth. This station was renovated in 1997 by NYCT in house contract. A newsstand is located on the northbound platform. The artwork is entitled “Transitions” by Lois Delsarte and was installed in 2001.
Winthrop Road (on Nostrand Avenue at Winthrop Road) opened 08/23/1920 and has two tracks, two wall platforms, no crossover or crossunder. Northbound exit is at the north end at platform level. Southbound exit is up ten steps and is at the south end and leads to Parkside Avenue. No exit to Winthrop Road was found leading to a theory of sealed center exit(s). The station has a secondary name of Downstate Medical Center University Hospital. The station has vent chambers Rear of platforms are offset.
Sterling Street (on Nostrand Avenue at Sterling Street) opened 08/23/1920 and has two tracks, two wall platforms and a crossover via dual stairways on both platforms. The offset to platforms is at the rear of both platforms.
President Street (on Nostrand Avenue at President Street) opened 08/23/1920 and has two tracks ands an island platform. To exit you go up seventeen steps to an intermediate level and then thirteen steps to the mezzanine. You can also use an escalator to bypass the intermediate level .The exit is near the North end. The steel I- beams are double wide and the south end of the platform tapers. The North end of the northbound track features a punch for local or express.. We meet the 3 train and 4 train and run local on a four track trunk line under Eastern Parkway
Franklin Avenue (on Eastern Parkway at Franklin Avenue) opened 08/23/1920 and has four tracks and two island platforms with a crossover at both ends. This unrenovated station has been adopted by Clara Barton High School. The North exit is eighteen steps to the mezzanine and to a passageway that connects to the Franklin Shuttle. The South exit has dual stairways to a mezzanine with a newsstand. This mezzanine still has some incandescent lights. A tower is at the south end of the southbound platform along with a punch or Flatbush or Utica on the local track. On the express track the punch adds a choice of local or express to Utica
Eastern Parkway Brooklyn Museum (Off Washington Avenue and Eastern Parkway ) opened 08/23/1920 and has two tracks, two wall platforms. There is an emergency exit from the express tracks (on a lower level) at the south end of both platforms and the North end has an emergency exit to the street and a ghost booth. The station has just been renovated by Citnalta Construction and is spotless. Mosaic directional signs were found. Artwork is entitled “New York City Architectural Artifacts from the Collection of the Brooklyn Museum” and was installed in 2004. It is curated by Farancz Painting Conservation Studio and features gargoyles and friezes from NYC buildings. For a track map of the Eastern Parkway Trunk Line see www.nycsubway.org
Grand Army Plaza (on Flatbush Avenue at Grand Army Plaza) opened 08/23/1920 and has two tracks and a very wide Island Platform Artwork is by Jane Greengold and is entitled “Wings for the IRT… The Irresistible Romance of Travel” and was installed in 1995. The art features angels gesturing toward an R62 car (See www.nycsubway.org for photos and a track map.) No evidence of emergency exits was found unless inside one of many rooms on the platform.
Bergen Street (on Flatbush Avenue at Bergen Street) opened 08/23/1920 and has four tracks and two wall platforms separate by a curtain wall (from the center it looks like one track but at the North end you can se the express tracks used by the 4 train Booths are at the platform level with no crossover or crossunder . This station has not been renovated.
Atlantic Avenue (on Flatbush Avenue at Atlantic Avenue) is described on the Complexes page
Nevins Street (on Flatbush Avenue and Fulton Street at Nevins Street) opened 05/01/1908 and has four tracks ands two island platforms with the tower between the two express tracks which was once a track. For more info see www.nycsubway.org. The current layout has a crossunder which hides the abandoned lower level. See Brennan’s Page for more information. This station is very shallow and often has standing water of the platforms. This station has been renovated and features Artwork in the mezzanine which has no crossover on each side of Fulton Street. Both platforms taper at the south end.
Hoyt Street Fulton Mall (on Futon Mall at Hoyt Street) opened on 05/01/1908 and has four tracks and two wall platforms. There used to be a crossunder to the former Abraham and Straus (Now Macy’s) Department store but was sealed when the station was renovated in the 1970s. The renovation covered the original tablets and tile which remains only at the south end of the station..
Borough Hall is described on the Complexes Page
Clark Street (Inside Saint George Hotel) opened on 04/15/1919 and has two tracks and an island platform in a tube design. The station has a secondary name of Brooklyn Heights Exit is up to the lower mezzanine and then elevators to the street. The exit is at street level via an arcade with shops and the Hotel St. George. The lower mezzanine features artwork on the floor by Ray Ring, installed 1987 entitled “In Celebration of Lazlo” and features geometric shapes. This is the last stop in Brooklyn
Wall Street (On William Street at Wall Street) opened on 08/01/1918 and is the first stop in Manhattan and has two tracks and a narrow island platform. There is a passageway outside the paid area to Broad Street on the J Train. Artwork by Harry Roseman was installed in 1990 and is entitled “Subway Wall”. The North end has an extreme taper. Exits lead to Cedar, Pine, William Street (North), Pine, Pearl and William (Center and Wall and William Streets (South). The station was renovated in 1993 by NYCT in house contract. Mosaic direction signs are present.
Fulton Street on William Street at Fulton Street) opened on 08/01/1918 and is described on the Complexes Page
Park Place (Between Church Street and Broadway at Park Place) opened on 08/01/1918 and is described on the Complexes Page
Chambers Street (On West Broadway at Chambers Street) opened on 07/01/1918 and has four tracks and two island platforms. This station is slated for renovation during the 2005-2009 five year plan. The station has crossovers. Much of the station has a fairly high ceiling and still has some incandescent lights in the mezzanine. The South ends of the platforms are split with the local tracks slightly higher. The exit is to Chambers Street and West Broadway
14th Street (on 7th Avenue at West 14th Street) opened 07/01/1918 and is described on the Complexes Page
34th Street Penn Station (on 7th Avenue at West 34th Street) opened on 07/01/1918 and has four tracks a wall platform for Northbound local, Island platform for express trains and a wall platform for southbound local. This station has crossunders as well as some booths on platform level. Artwork is entitled “When the Animals Speak…” by Elizabeth Grajales, 1997.it features animal courtship and rearing of their young. The mezzanine is below the tracks and is a direct connection to NY Penn Station.
42nd Street Times Square (on 7th Avenue at West 42nd Street) is also described on the Complexes page.
72nd Street (on Broadway at West 72nd Street) opened on 10/27/1904 and has four tracks and two island Platforms and was renovated in 2000. Art work is a glass block wall and skylight. The artwork is entitled “Laced Canopy” and is by Robert Hickman, It features notes from Verdi’s opera, Rigeletto. The area has a nearby Verdi Park. The South exit features the original historic entrance leading to 71st and 72nd Streets and the North Entrance, which is new, leads to 72nd and 73rd Streets. The station has full ADA access at the new north entrance fare control only. There is no ADA access from the South exit.
96th Street (on Broadway at West 96th Street) opened 10/27/1904 and has four tracks, two island platforms and two short wall platforms at the North end. As built, the locals were five cars and used the wall platforms and the express trains used the island platforms. When the locals were lengthened to ten cars, the wall platforms were used only for the booths. The station has at crossover at the South end leading to 94th Street and a crossunder at the North end leading to 96th Street. The f/t booths are at 94th street at the south end and west side of 96th street at the north end. A Tower is present at the 96th street f/t area. An additional p/t booth is on the east side of West 96th Street and Broadway
Leaving here, the express tracks descend and turn off. Under 104th street where there is a wide area and an employee platform with emergency exit to the 1 train. I have been informed by RTO Personnel that there used to be at third track here which is long gone. We curve again and enter our first station on Lenox Avenue), 110th Street Central Park North (on Lenox Avenue at 110th Street) opened on 11/23/1904 with two tracks and an island platform. The station has been renovated and features an exit to 111th Street with HEETs at the North end and the booth at the South end to 110th Street. The 111th exit was the original end of platform prior to being extended and for many years had the booth located there. After the renovation, the f/t booth was relocated back to 110th/Central Park North exit, and a new staircase was built The original mosaics on the track walls were restored and a new artwork entitled “Message from Malcom [X}” by Maren Hassinger, 1998. The art features a quote from Malcom on the Northbound Side “I lived in Egypt. I stayed in Egypt and I was among Brothers and I felt the spirit of Brotherhood.” The platform has a severe taper at the North end and has vent chambers
116th Street (on Lenox Avenue at 116th Street) opened on 11/23/1904 and has two wall platforms and two tracks and has been renovated. There is no crossover or crossunder. The artwork is by Vincent Smith and was installed in 1999. It features prominent African American locations and people Downtown features the Apollo Theater, Studio musicians, National Black Theater, Malcom Shubazz Masjid, Harlem Hospital, Schomberg Center, Abyssinian Baptist Church , State Office Building, Theresa Powers and people associated with these places Uptown features Minton’s Playhouse which was at 208 West 118th Street. This was a jazz club where Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie played. Fare control is at the center. Some new tablets were found along with some original and restored tablets and cartouches.
125th Street (on Lenox Avenue at 125th Street) opened on 11/23/1904 and also has two tracks, two wall platforms and no crossover or crossunder. It has been renovated. Fare control is at platform level. Artwork is by Faith Ringold as assisted by Tim Tait Designs and was installed in 1996. It is entitled “Flying Home” and features prominent African Americans in a flying position. Uptown has the Schomberg Library, Madame Walker’s Beauty Parlor and Berlin’s Olympic Stadium, Abyssinian Baptist Church, NAACP, National Council of Negro women (NCNW) and the Theresa Hotel. Downtown features the Apollo Theater, Cotton Club, Harlem Opera House, Yankee Stadium, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. All scenes include people associated with these places.
135th Street (on Lenox Avenue at 135th Street) opened on 11/23/1904 and has three tracks and two wall platforms, no crossover or crossunder and has been renovated. Fare control is at platform level. Artwork is by Willie Birch and was installed in 1995. It is entitled “Harlem Time Line”. Uptown features “Black Manhattan” with Malcom X, City Hall, and John Coltrane, Paul Robeson, Sunday morning, woman in yellow, 1926 Harlem General Hospital, 135th Street and Lenox Avenue.
“Village of Harlem” with Children at play, Thelonius Monk, Father Divine, Billie Holiday,, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Abyssinian Baptist Church, UNIA Parade and Marcus Garvey.
Downtown features “What’s in My Hand with Adam Layton Powell Jr., Clara Ward, Nail and parker Blug, Abyssinian Baptist Church parade, Checker Players, Charlie Parker, 135th Street and Lenox Avenue,135th Street Library, Schomberg Center, and the Bird of Sankofa ” If you don’t know where you come from how do you know where to go?”. Downtown also features “Black Bird” with Kids at study, Ira Alrdridge, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, W.E.B. DuBois and Florence Mills..
149th Street Grand Concourse (on East 149th Street at Grand Concourse ) 07/10/1905 and has two levels. The upper level serves the 4 train with three tracks and two island platforms with a crossunder. The lower level which has a high ceiling has two tracks, two wall platforms and a crossover. This level serves the 2 train and the 5 train. The south end of the lower northbound platform features closed double deck elevators which lead to the P/T mezzanine area behind the Manhattan-bound 4 staircases (area by elevator is closed off). There is an interesting vent or electrical chamber outside on the S/W corner of 149th Street and Grand Concourse, the tablet at the top reads “MOTT AVENUE” as well. Most of the tablets on the lower level were covered with the standard NYCT signs”149th Street Grand Concourse”, however in one of them on the downtown platform the original ” Mott Avenue” remains exposed. Platform extensions are at the far north end on both levels
149th Street Third Avenue (on East 149th Street at third Avenue) opened on 07/10/1905 and has been renovated. It has two tracks and two wall platforms. It has full ADA with no crossunder or crossover. Artwork entitled “Una Raza, Un Mundo, Un Universo” (One Race, One World, one universe) was installed in 1996 by Jose Ortega. There are two ghost booths here which issued bus transfers no made obsolete by the MetroCard. The Door near fare control is actually part of passageway to the Third avenue el. Your staff is upset about their decision to remove the “3” tablets from the station and cover the 3rd Ave station mosaic. We leave the subway and become an el. From here to East Tremont is being totally renovated (except Intervale.). A re visit is planned upon completion.
Jackson Avenue (on Westchester Avenue at Jackson Avenue) opened on 11/26/1904 and has three tracks and two wall platforms with no crossover or crossunder. Historic details are being restored. Estimated cost is $9.7 million.
Prospect Avenue (on Westchester Avenue at Prospect Avenue) opened on 11/26/1904 and has three tracks and two wall platforms with no crossover or crossunder. Historic details are being restored. Estimated cost is $9.8 million.
Intervale Avenue (on Westchester Avenue at Intervale Avenue (East 163rd Street) opened on 11/26/1904 and has three tracks and two wall platforms with a crossunder. After a fire, it was planed to close the station but the community forced a rebuild. It is now all metal and out of character with the rest of the line. The original name was 163rd Street. Artwork is in the mezzanine and is entitled “The Els 2” and “The Els 5” installed in 1992. The Artist is Michael Kelly Williams.
Simpson Street (on Westchester Avenue at Simpson Street) opened on 11/26/1904 and has three tracks and two wall platforms with no crossover or crossunder. Historic details are being restored. Estimated cost is $11.2 million.
Freeman Street (on Southern Boulevard at Freeman Street) opened on 11/26/1904 and has three tracks and two wall platforms with no crossover or crossunder Historic details are being restored. Estimated cost is $10.1 million. This station is on a curve. This station is known for two items:
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It was a terminus for 2nd and 3rd Avenue el trains from Manhattan where there was a connection near 149th Street. |
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The north end of this station was a backdrop for the opening scene of “Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981). |
This site encourages respects of any law enforcement officer.
174th Street on Boston Road at East 174th Street) opened on 11/26/1904 and has three tracks and two wall platforms with no crossover or crossunder. Historic details are being restored. Estimated cost is $2 million.
West Farms Square East Tremont Avenue (on Boston Road at East Tremont Avenue) opened on 11/26/1904 and has three tracks and two wall platforms with a crossunder. Estimated cost for renovation is $11 million and is an in house contract by NYCT. Original name was East 177th Street. . North of this station is a spur (now abandoned) which lead to East 180th Street (not current East 180th Street Station.) the line was planned to go straight but was rerouted after objections from the zoo (Source: Joe Cunningham). The spur station, called 180th Street Bronx Park on Boston Road at East 180th Street) opened on 11/26/1904 and closed on 08/04/1952 We now have a sharp S Curve. After the first curve near East Tremont Avenue we see the remains of a “fourth track” alongside the n/b track. This may suggest that there either was a track crossover from the Bronx Zoo East 180th Street branch curving northward towards the current East 180th Street Station or the curve was eased after the Bronx Zoo Branch closed.
East 180th Street (on White Plains Road at East 180th Street) opened on 03/03/1917 and has three tracks and two Island platforms. The station used to have escalators to the street but was lowered (Source; NYCT Superintendent and Supervisor) has three tracks and two wall platforms and a crossunder). A walk under the structure reveals the location of the escalators. Renovation is planned in the 2005-2009 Plan
A yard and shop are to the West of the station and the abandoned NYW&B station to our east.. For more info on the NYW&B see www.nycsubway.org .The 2 train and 5 train split here via flyover ramps. North of here we see the Unionport Yard to our East. From here to 241st is also being renovated and will be revisited upon completion. The contractor is Judleau Construction.
Bronx Park East (on White Plains Road at Bronx {Park East )opened on 03/03/1917 and has three tracks and two wall platforms and a crossunder. Estimated $ cost is 13.9 million
Pelham Parkway (On White Plains Road at Pelham Parkway) opened on 03/03/1917 and has three tracks and two wall platforms and a crossunder Estimated $ cost is not available. Full ADA is pending.
Allerton Avenue (on White Plains Road at Allerton Avenue) opened on 03/03/1917 and has three tracks and two wall platforms and a crossunder Estimated $ cost is 12.3 million.
Burke Avenue (On White Plains Road at Burke Avenue) opened on 03/03/1917 and has three tracks and two wall platforms and a crossunder Estimated $ cost is 12.2 million.
Gun Hill Road (on White Plains Road at Gun Hill Road) opened on 03/03/1917 and has three tracks and two island platforms and a crossunder Estimated $ cost is not available. Full ADA is pending. There are some skeletal remains of the third avenue el which used the lower level but it is planned to totally remove this lower level and lower the current structure. Currently the station is quite high.
219th Street (on White Plains Road at East 219th Street) opened on 03/03/1917 and has three tracks and two wall platforms and a crossunder Estimated cost is $11.9 million.
225th Street (on White Plains Road at East 225th Street) opened on 03/31/1917 and has three tracks and two wall platforms and a crossunder Estimated cost is $11.3 million
233rd Street (on White Plains Road at East 233rd Street) opened on 03/31/1917 and has three tracks and two wall platforms and a crossunder Estimated cost is $12.7 million
Nereid Avenue 238th Street (on White Plains Road at East 238th Street) opened on 03/31/1917 and has three tracks and two wall platforms and a crossunder. Estimated cost is $11.9 million
241 Street Wakefield (On White Plains Road at east 241st Street) opened 12/31/1920 and has two tracks, two closed wall platforms and an island platform Estimated cost is $16.4 million.
Rating: 4 stars. Would get 5 if remaining Flatbush stations renovated..