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| Address | West 238th Street & Broadway, Bronx, NY 10463 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Borough | The Bronx | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Locale | Fieldston | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Division | A (IRT) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line | IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Services | 1 (all times) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure | Elevated | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 3 (2 in regular service) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | August 1, 1908 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2010) | 1,067,352[1] 2.5% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | 341 out of 422 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Next north | Van Cortlandt Park – 242nd Street: 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Next south | 231st Street: 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
This elevated station, opened on August 1, 1908, has and two side platforms and three tracks with the center one not used in revenue service. Each platform has beige windscreens and red canopies with green roofs in the center and black waist-high fences on either side.
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.
North of this station is the 240th Street Yard, which is where cars assigned to the 1 train are 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.
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