Division A (IRT) Transit connections NYCT Bus: Bx3, Bx9 Platforms 2 side platforms Borough The Bronx | Services 1 (all times) Structure Elevated Opened 1 August 1908 Locale Kingsbridge, Riverdale | |
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Line IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line Address Bronx, NY 10463, United States Similar 231st Street, Marble Hill–225th Street, Van Cortlandt Park–242, 215th Street, 207th Street | ||
238th Street is a local station on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 238th Street and Broadway in the Bronx, it is served by the 1 train at all times.
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Station layout
This elevated station, opened on August 1, 1908, has two side platforms and three tracks with the center one not used in revenue service. On July 9, 1948, a platform extension at this station lengthening the platform to 514 feet, was opened to allow full ten-car trains to platform. Previously, only six-car locals were able to board at the station. This platform extension was part of a $423,000 project to lengthen the platforms of five stations on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line. Each platform has beige windscreens and red canopies with green roofs in the center and black waist-high fences on either side.
North of this station is the 240th Street Yard, which is where cars assigned to the 1 train are inspected and maintained. The yard has a footbridge to the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line and crossovers and leads that allow this station to serve as a terminal. During the morning rush-hours, some 1 trains begin their trips here as direct put-ins from the nearby 240th Street Yard, and some evening rush-hour 1 trains end their trips and drops-out to lay-up at the 240th Street Yard, to prevent congestion at the next terminal station at Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street.
Exits
Since there is only one more station a short distance away in the northbound direction on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line, the northbound platform is exit only, containing two platform-level turnstiles, each of which leads to a staircase that goes down to either eastern corner of 238th Street and Broadway. The Manhattan-bound platform has an adjacent elevated station house that contains a turnstile bank, token booth, and a single street stair going down to the southwest corner of 238th Street and Broadway.