Parkchester (IRT Pelham Line)

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Parkchester
New York City Subway station

Station information
Line	IRT Pelham Line
Services	6 (all times) <6>(weekdays until 8:45 p.m., peak direction)
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	3
Passengers (2006)	4.430 million ▲ 3%
Other
Borough	Bronx
Opened	May 30, 1920
Next north	Castle Hill Avenue (local): 6 <6> Pelham Bay Park (express): no regular service
Next south	St. Lawrence Avenue (local): 6 Hunts Point Avenue (express): <6>

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 service roads (formerly East 177th Street), Metropolitan Avenue, and Westchester Avenue, atop Hugh J. Grant Circle.

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.

When the 6 express operates, most 6 local trains terminate here.