Parkchester (IRT Pelham Line)

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New York City Subway station Parkchester

Station information
Line	IRT Pelham Line
Services	6 <6>^(1a2a)
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	3
Other
Borough	Bronx
Opened	May 30, 1920
Next north	Local: Castle Hill Avenue 6^(1b2b345) <6>^(1a2a)
	Express: Pelham Bay Park no regular service
Next south	Local: St. Lawrence Avenue 6
	Express: Hunts Point Avenue <6>^(1a2a)

Parkchester (formerly Parkchester–East 177th Street) is an elevated station on the IRT Pelham Line of the New York City Subway. Served by the 6 train at all times, it is located in the Bronx at the intersection of the Cross-Bronx Expressway and Westchester Avenue, atop Hugh J. Grant Circle. Before the construction of the expressway, the cross-street here was East 177th Street.

It is an express station with two island platforms and three tracks. There are a couple of 1950s-style mushroom-shaped lights at the end of the platforms. An unusual feature is the covered exits from the platform to the mezzanine, which features 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 the fare control to the southbound platform, bypassing the mezzanine. 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.