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| Address | area of Cross-Bronx Expressway, Metropolitan Avenue & Westchester Avenue Bronx, NY 10472 |
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| Borough | The Bronx | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Locale | Parkchester | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Division | A (IRT) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line | IRT Pelham Line | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Services | 6 (all times) <6>(weekdays until 8:45 p.m., peak direction) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure | Elevated | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 island platforms cross-platform interchange |
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| Tracks | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | May 30, 1920 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former/other names | Parkchester – East 177th Street East 177th Street – Parkchester East 177th Street |
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| Passengers (2010) | 3,944,729[1] 15.9% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | 115 out of 422 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Next north | Castle Hill Avenue (local): 6 <6> Pelham Bay Park (express): no regular service (Terminal): 6 |
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| Next south | St. Lawrence Avenue (local): 6 Hunts Point Avenue (express): <6> |
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Parkchester (formerly Parkchester – East 177th Street) is an express station on the IRT Pelham Line of the New York City Subway. 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.
It 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. The mezzanine 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. 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, 6 local trains terminate here. The <6> express always stops on the express track and the local trains always stop on the local track, even when they terminate there. The 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 Parkchester is always served by a local train. During weekdays from approximately 6:30 AM to 8:45 PM, the peak direction train on that section is the <6> train; Manhattan-bound in the morning, Pelham Bay Park-bound in the afternoon and early evening. Trains switch designations at Pelham Bay Park for the return trip to Manhattan.
This station was rehabilitated in 2010.
