Division A (IRT) Structure Elevated Opened 27 May 1920 Tracks 3 | Line IRT Pelham Line Borough The Bronx Locale Parkchester | |
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Services 6 (all times) <6> (weekdays until 8:45 p.m., peak direction) Transit connections NYCT Bus: Bx4, Bx4A, Bx36, Bx39, Q44 SBS
MTA Bus: BxM6 Platforms 2 island platforms
cross-platform interchange Address Bronx, NY 10472, United States Similar Pelham Bay Park, Hunts Point Avenue, Whitlock Avenue, St Lawrence Avenue, Buhre Avenue | ||
Parkchester (formerly known as and still announced as Parkchester–East 177th Street) is an express station on the IRT Pelham Line of the New York City Subway. The station opened on May 27, 1920. It is located in the Bronx at the intersection of the Cross-Bronx Expressway service roads (formerly East 177th Street), Metropolitan Avenue, and Westchester Avenue, atop Hugh J. Grant Circle. It is served by the 6 train at all times and the <6> train during weekdays in the peak direction. By passenger count, Parkchester is the third busiest station in the Bronx in 2014, behind 161st Street–Yankee Stadium and Third Avenue–149th Street, which are respectively the busiest and second busiest stations.
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Station layout
Parkchester is an express station with three tracks and two island platforms. There are 1950s-style mushroom-shaped lights at the end of the platforms and the staircases to the mezzanine are sheltered. Just north of the station is a signal tower which was used until the late 1990s, when a new master tower was created in Westchester Yard. This station was rehabilitated in 2010.
When <6> express trains operate, 6 local trains terminate here. <6> express trains always stop on the center track and 6 local trains always stop on the outer track, even when they terminate there. Trains use the switches north of the station to get to their respective track. Terminating trains use the center track past those switches as a pocket track to relay.
The IRT Pelham Line north of this station is served by a local train at all times except rush hours when <6> trains make local stops between this station and Pelham Bay Park. During this time, trains switch designations at Pelham Bay Park for the return trip to Manhattan.
Exit
The station's only exit is a mezzanine in the center of the Hugh Grant Circle, a traffic circle. It has a crossunder and windows in a simulated 12-pane pattern similar to those at Whitlock Avenue. The fare control is at street level and the room features a painting entitled Live The Dream. There is an escalator from fare control to the southbound platform, bypassing the mezzanine.