Division A (IRT) Borough The Bronx Added to NRHP 17 September 2004 | Structure Elevated Locale Longwood Tracks 3 | |
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Address Simpson Street & Westchester Avenue
Bronx, NY 10459 Line IRT White Plains Road Line Services 2 (all times)
5 (all except late nights and rush hours, peak direction) Transit connections NYCT Bus: Bx4, Bx4A, Bx5, Bx11, Bx19, Bx27, Bx35 Similar Intervale Avenue, Freeman Street, Prospect Avenue, Jackson Avenue, East 180th Street | ||
Simpson Street is a local station on the IRT White Plains Road Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Simpson Street and Westchester Avenue in the Longwood neighborhood of the Bronx, it is served by the 2 train at all times, and the 5 train at all other times except during late nights and rush hours in the peak direction.
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Map of Simpson St, Bronx, NY 10459, USA
Station layout
This elevated station, opened on November 26, 1904, but was originally for the Bergen Avenue By-pass spur of the IRT Third Avenue Line, until July 10, 1905 when the "IRT Broadway Express Line" was constructed at Jackson Avenue, eventually replacing the original line in 1955. It was renovated in the early 2000s, and has two side platforms and three tracks. The center express track is used by the 5 train during rush hours in the peak direction. To the north, the line curves from Westchester Avenue to Southern Boulevard. The IRT Pelham Line (6 <6> trains), which curves above Westchester Avenue five blocks northeast of this station, is visible from the east end of the platforms.
Both platforms have cream-colored windscreens and red canopies. Both platforms also have green outlines, frames and support columns, in their center and green waist-high, ornament-style steel fences at either ends with several lampposts. The station's signs are in the standard black name plates with white Helvetica lettering.
This station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 17, 2004, along with the Westchester-Simpson Street Substation, also known as IRT Substation #18.
Exits
Due to the tracks' low height above ground, both station houses are at platform level and there are no crossovers or crossunders. The station has been renovated to be ADA-accessible. The Manhattan-bound platform's station house is staffed full-time and contains several sets of doors leading to the small waiting area from the platform, a turnstile bank, token booth, two staircases going down to either northern corners of Simpson Street and Westchester Avenue, and one elevator going down to the northeast corner. A high exit-only turnstile on either side of the station house leads directly to one of the street stairs from the platform.
The northbound platform's station house is unstaffed, containing several sets of doors leading to the small waiting area from the platform, a bank of three turnstiles, two staircases going down to either southern corners of Simpson Street and Westchester Avenue, and one elevator going down to the southwest corner. It had a customer assistance booth until April 2010. A high exit-only turnstile on either side of the station house leads directly to one of the street stairs from the platform.
Artwork
The 2006 artwork here is called What We Build is Not Permanent, We Are Not What We Build by Lisa Amowitz. It consists of stained glass panels on the platform windscreens and station houses with the theme with renewing or rebuilding what has died or fallen.