Pelham Parkway station (IRT White Plains Road Line)

Pelham Parkway is a local station on the IRT White Plains Road Line of the New York City Subway. Located in the Bronx at the intersection of Pelham Parkway and White Plains Road, it is served by the 2 train at all times and by the 5 train during rush hours in the peak direction.

Pelham Parkway  ​
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
Street entrance, as seen from the eastbound Pelham Parkway
Station statistics
Address	Pelham Parkway & White Plains Road Bronx, NY 10467
Borough	The Bronx
Locale	Pelham Parkway
Coordinates	40.857°N 73.868°W
Division	A (IRT)
Line	IRT White Plains Road Line
Services	2  (all times) ​   5  (limited weekday rush hour service in the peak direction)
Transit	NYCT Bus: Bx12, Bx12 SBS, Bx22, Bx39 MTA Bus: BxM11 Bee-Line Bus: 60, 61, 62
Structure	Elevated
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	3
Other information
Opened	March 3, 1917
Station code	424[1]
Accessible	ADA-accessible
Opposite- direction transfer	Yes
Traffic
2019	2,651,208[2]  0.4%
Rank	183 out of 424[2]
Station succession
Next north	Allerton Avenue: 2  ​5
Next south	Bronx Park East: 2  ​5
Location
Track layout to Allerton Av to Bronx Pk E
Street map
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times Stops rush hours in the peak direction only
Pelham Parkway Station (Dual System IRT)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
MPS	New York City Subway System MPS
NRHP reference No.	05000228[3]
Added to NRHP	March 30, 2005

History

This station was built under the Dual Contracts. It opened on March 3, 1917, as part of an extension of the IRT White Plains Road Line from East 177th Street–East Tremont Avenue to East 219th Street–White Plains Road, providing the Bronx communities of Williamsbridge and Wakefield with access to rapid transit service. Service on the new portion of the line was operated as a four-car shuttle from 177th Street due to the power conditions at the time.[4][5][6]

This station was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 30, 2005.[7] It was renovated in 2007 at a cost of $18.85 million. At the same time, another project was undertaken to install elevators at the station, making it ADA-accessible for $2.43 million.[8]

Station layout

P Platform level	Side platform
	Northbound local	← toward 241st Street (Allerton Avenue) ← PM rush toward Nereid Avenue (Allerton Avenue)
	Peak-direction express	→ No regular service
	Southbound local	← toward Flatbush Avenue via Seventh (Bronx Park East) → ← AM rush toward Flatbush Avenue via Lexington (Bronx Park East) →
	Side platform
M	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent, MetroCard machines Elevator at southwest corner of Pelham Parkway and White Plains Road
G	Street level	Entrances/exits

Southbound platform

This elevated station has three tracks and two side platforms with the center express track not normally used in revenue service.[9]

Due to the wideness of Pelham Parkway and its service roads, the entire station, including the platform windscreens, canopies, and outer street support columns, is enclosed in concrete over the steel structure. A green trim line runs on top of the windscreens and no columns support the canopies.

Exits

This station has two mezzanines, both of which are beneath the tracks and platforms. The full-time one is at the south end and has a staircase and elevator from each platform going down to a waiting area/crossunder, where a turnstile bank provides access to and from the station. The Manhattan-bound platform also has a short, up-only escalator from the station house. Outside fare control, there is a token booth, one staircase and elevator going down to the southwest corner of Pelham Parkway's south service road and White Plains Road, and one up-escalator from the southeast corner of the same intersection. The three elevators make this station fully ADA-accessible.[10]

The north station house, which was renovated in the late 1990s, is unstaffed, containing two staircases from each platform, two more from either northern corners of Pelham Parkway's north service road and White Plains Road, and full height turnstiles.[10]

Artwork

In 1976, with funding from the Exxon Corporation, this station, as well as three others citywide, received new "artfully humorous graffiti" murals and artwork.[11] Local designer Peter Bradford Associates received $5,000 to repaint the station and put "16 bright posters of animals and parts of animals" on each platform wall, in the theme of the nearby Bronx Zoo.[11]

The current artwork at this station, installed during a 2004-2007 renovation, is called Back to the Garden by Tomie Arai. It consists of stained glass windows on the platform windscreens depicting images of trees and plants, inspired by the nearby zoo and botanical garden.

References

1. "Station Developers' Information". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
2. "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership 2014–2019". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2020. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
3. "NPS Focus". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. Retrieved December 24, 2011.
4. "Annual report. 1916-1917". HathiTrust. Interborough Rapid Transit Company. 2013-12-12. Retrieved 2016-09-05.
5. "New Subway Line Opened: White Plains Extension is Now Running to 238th Street" (PDF). The New York Times. April 1, 1917. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 24, 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
6. "White Plains Road Extension of Subway Opened to the Public; New Branch, Which Runs from 177th to 219th Street, Gives the Williamsbridge and Wakefield Sections of the East Bronx Rapid Transit for the First Time" (PDF). The New York Times. March 4, 1917. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 23, 2020.
7. "New York MPS Pelham Parkway Station (Dual System IRT)". Records of the National Park Service, 1785 - 2006, Series: National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmarks Program Records, 2013 - 2017, Box: National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmarks Program Records: New York, ID: 75312128. National Archives.
8. MTA 2006 Adopted Budget - February Financial Plan - Part 3 (PDF) (Report). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2006. p. 46. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 24, 2019. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
9. Dougherty, Peter (2006) [2002]. Tracks of the New York City Subway 2006 (3rd ed.). Dougherty. OCLC 49777633 – via Google Books.
10. "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Pelham Parkway" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
11. Burks, Edward C. (1976-11-18). "A Subway Elongatomus? Why, It's Preposterous!". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on March 24, 2020. Retrieved 2016-09-23.

External links

• nycsubway.org – IRT White Plains Road Line: Pelham Parkway
• nycsubway.org — Back to the Garden Artwork by Tomie Arai (2006)
• Station Reporter — 2 Train
• The Subway Nut — Pelham Parkway Pictures Archived 2020-02-23 at the Wayback Machine
• MTA's Arts For Transit — Pelham Parkway (IRT White Plains Road Line)
• Pelham Parkway (north) entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Pelham Parkway (south) entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Platforms from Google Maps Street View