Parkchester (IRT Pelham Line)

Infobox NYCS
name = Parkchester


bg_color = #007527
line = IRT Pelham Line
service = Pelham
platforms = 2 island platforms
tracks = 3
passengers=4.430 million
pass_year=2006
pass_percent=3
borough = Bronx
open_date = May 30, 1920
north_line = IRT Pelham Line
north_local_station = Castle Hill Avenue
north_local_service = Pelham north local
north_express_station = Pelham Bay Park
north_express_station_acc = yes
north_express_service = Pelham north express
south_line = IRT Pelham Line
south_local_station = St. Lawrence Avenue
south_local_service = Pelham south local
south_express_station = Hunts Point Avenue
south_express_service = Pelham south express

Parkchester (formerly Parkchester–East 177th Street) is an elevated station on the IRT Pelham Line of the New York City Subway. Served by the NYCS|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.

Bus connections

*Bx4
*Bx14
*Bx36
*Bx39
*Q44

Photo gallery

External links

*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?201:1201|IRT Pelham Line|East 177th Street/Parkchester
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/6train.htm 6 Train]
* [http://www.parkchesterinfo.com the parkchester information network]