Middletown Road (IRT Pelham Line)
Middletown Road  | |||||||||
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| New York City Subway rapid transit station | |||||||||
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| Station statistics | |||||||||
| Address |
Middletown Road & Westchester Avenue Bronx, NY 10461 | ||||||||
| Borough | The Bronx | ||||||||
| Locale | Pelham Bay | ||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°50′36″N 73°50′12″W / 40.843424°N 73.836751°WCoordinates: 40°50′36″N 73°50′12″W / 40.843424°N 73.836751°W | ||||||||
| Division | A (IRT) | ||||||||
| Line | IRT Pelham Line | ||||||||
| Services |
6  (all times except weekdays until 8:45 p.m., peak direction) <6> (weekdays until 8:45 p.m., peak direction) | ||||||||
| Transit connections |
 NYCT Bus: Bx8, Bx24 | ||||||||
| Structure | Elevated | ||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||
| Tracks | 3 (2 in regular service) | ||||||||
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| Opened | December 20, 1920 | ||||||||
| Traffic | |||||||||
| Passengers (2015) |
795,762[1]  20.3% | ||||||||
| Rank | 387 out of 422 | ||||||||
| Station succession | |||||||||
| Next north |
Buhre Avenue: 6 <6> | ||||||||
| Next south |
Westchester Square–East Tremont Avenue: 6 <6> | ||||||||
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Middletown Road is a local station of the IRT Pelham Line of the New York City Subway. Located at Middletown Road and Westchester Avenue in the Bronx, it is served by the 6 train at all times except weekdays in the peak direction, when the <6> train takes over.
Station layout
| P Platform level |
Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
| Southbound local | ← toward Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall (Westchester Square–East Tremont Avenue) | |
| Peak-direction express | → No regular service | |
| Northbound local | → toward Pelham Bay Park (Buhre Avenue) → | |
| Side platform, doors will open on the right | ||
| M | Mezzanine | Station agent, MetroCard vending machines, fare control |
| G | Street Level | Exit / Entrance |
This elevated station, opened on December 20, 1920, has two side platforms and three tracks. The center express track is not used in regular service. South of the station are track leads to Westchester Yard, the main yard for all 6 and <6> trains. The center and Manhattan-bound local tracks rise above these leads.
Both platforms have beige windscreens and red canopies with green frames and support columns in the center. On either ends are white waist-high steel fences with sodium lampposts at regular intervals. The station name signs are in the standard black plates with white Helvetica lettering.
This station has one wooden elevated mezzanine below the platforms and tracks. Two staircases from the center of each platform go down to the mezzanine, where a turnstile bank provides access to and from the station. Outside fare control, there is a token booth and two street stairs. One goes south down to the triangular corner of Middletown Road and Westchester Avenue and the other to the north side of Westchester Avenue.
From October 2013 to May 2014, the station was closed for rehabilitation work;[2] however, the MTA has been sued by a disability rights group for not including an elevator during the $21,000,000 renovation of that subway station, because it was near an accessible rehabilitation clinic.[3]
References
- ↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
- ↑ Temporary Station Closures
- ↑ "Disability rights groups sue MTA over inaccessible subway station". Retrieved 2016-07-07.
External links
Media related to Middletown Road (IRT Pelham Line) at Wikimedia Commons
- nycsubway.org – IRT Pelham Line: Middletown Road
- Station Reporter — 6 Train
- The Subway Nut — Middletown Road Pictures
- Middletown Road entrance from Google Maps Street View