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233rd Street (IRT White Plains Road Line)

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Division
  
A (IRT)

Platforms
  
2 side platforms

Borough
  
The Bronx

Structure
  
Elevated

Opened
  
31 March 1917

Locale
  
Wakefield

233rd Street (IRT White Plains Road Line)

Line
  
IRT White Plains Road Line

Services
  
2  (all times)       5  (rush hours, peak direction)

Transit connections
  
NYCT Bus: Bx31, Bx39 MTA Bus: BxM11 Bee-Line Bus: 42 Metro-North: Harlem Line (at Woodlawn)

Address
  
Bronx, NY 10466, United States

Similar
  
225th Street, 219th Street, Church Avenue, Allerton Avenue, Burke Avenue

233rd Street is a local station on the IRT White Plains Road Line of the New York City Subway. It is located in the Bronx at the intersection of 233rd Street and White Plains Road. It is served by the 2 train at all times and the 5 train during rush hours in the peak direction.

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Station layout

This elevated station opened on March 31, 1917, and contains three tracks and two side platforms. The center express track is not normally used in revenue service. Both platforms have beige windscreens and red canopies supported by green frames and columns in the center. They also have yellow ADA tactile strips on their edges. These were all installed during a Spring 2006 rehabilitation. On either ends, both platforms have black, steel, waist-high fences with white lampposts at regular intervals. The station signs are in the standard black name plates with white lettering.

The 2006 artwork here is called Secret Garden: There's No Place Like Home by Skowmon Hastanan. It consists of stained glass panels on the platform windscreens and station house depicting plants, fruits, and trees. It is associated with the New York Botanical Garden.

Exits

This station has one elevated station house below the tracks and platforms. Two staircases and one elevator from each platform go down to a waiting area/crossover, where a turnstile bank and two exit-only turnstiles provide access to/from the subway system. Outside fare control, there is a token booth and two staircases going down to either northern corners of White Plains Road and East 233rd Street. There is also an elevator going down to the northwest corner. The three elevators make the station ADA-accessible.

References

233rd Street (IRT White Plains Road Line) Wikipedia