The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-12
NEW HUNTS POINT
STATION OPENED
Bronx Transit Facilities I'M
proved by Completion Of
Subway Line.
BIG BOON TO COMMUTERS
Also Furnishes Incentive to
Home Building in Area
of Service.

Hunts Point Road. in The Bronx,
has been connected at the northern end
Of Southern boulevard with through
'ocal service. as well as express service
Viz lc5th street, with central Manhattan.
This Improvement In transit facilities
for a district which has hitherto been
closed to rapid transit Is OF distinct adj
vantage to the residents there. 1t Is
now possible to get from Hunts Point
Road to the Grand Central Station at
Forty-second street In twenty-five or
twenty EIGHT minutes.
The Hunts Point Road station Is prov
ing TO be not only an important local
station. but also point OF transfer from
the trains of the New York. New Haven
6 Hartford and the New York. West
chester & Boston. The branch OF the
New York. New Haven & Hartford
ytasses the Hunts Point Road station OF
the subway. and the New York. West
chester & Boston also uses II. Hereto
tore commuters over these lines to the
city proceeded down the Harlem River
over the Second and Third avenue ele-
waited lines. but with the completion and
opening OF the Southern Boulevard
Pelham Bay Park line to the Hunts
Point Road station during the last few
days hundreds of commuters now take
the subway trains at Hunts Point Road
station to the heart OF the city via l25th
street There Is local service between
125th street and Hunts Point Road sta
ton, but at 125th street one may change
to express trains. II desired. or con-
1inue on the local train. The time re-
duired between Hunts Point Road sta
ton and the station at l25th street Is
AIt mi w tNp I'm N
tween l25th street and the Grand Cen
trail Station is ten miputes.
Elevated Portion Unfinished.
Since the opening of the Lexington
avenue line all trains which have gone
over the branch have stopped on their
northward Journey at 13Sth street and
Third avenue. New stations above l3Sth
street have been opened as follows ::
Brook avenue, Cypress avenue. East
l43d street. East l49th street, Long
wood avenue and Hunts Point avenue.
This is practically the end of the under
ground portion Of the Pelham Bay Park
branch. Just above Hunts Point avenue
is the Bronx River. There the railroad
becomes elevated and runs out West
chester avenue to Pelham Bay Park.
The elevated part of the line is still
under construction.
The steel for the construction Of the
elevated portion Is all contracted for
and much Is already on the ground. The
Public Service Commission has awarded
contracts for the erection of some OF
the steel. which Is now awaiting action
ny the Board of Estimate. For the re-
Inainder of the steel erection, the COM
mission proposes to let an additional
contract soon in the hope that the work
may be completed. with tracks Installed.
stations constructed and the line opened.
about the end of the present year.
Pelham Bay Park Is tho eastern
terminal OF the elevated portion. For
n major part of Its length this line
reaches into a section Of the city here
tofore without real rapid transit. Here
are great prospects for the development
OF homes,
Property for the necessary yards at
Pelham Bay Park Is being acquired by
the comm ssion: also Tor yards at Co.
roma in Queens and the Livonia avenue
line in Brooklyn.