page_title: List of New York City Subway yards
section_title: Lenox Yard
hierarchical_section_title: List of New York City Subway yards / A Division yards / Lenox Yard
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Innenansicht des Lenox Yard aus dem Jahre 1904. Dieser fungierte bis in die 1960er Jahre als Hauptwerkstatt der Interborough Rapid Transit Company und späteren IRT Division. Er befand sich zwischen der 148.&#160;und 149.&#160;Straße in Harlem und bestand aus einer dreiteiligen Halle nebst Abstellanlage. Heute steht an dieser Stelle der Endbahnhof der Linie&#160;3, Harlem–148. Straße. English: Interior view of Lenox Yard, New York City Subway, in 1904. This yard served as the main repair and overhaul facility of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company subway system and later the IRT Division. It was located between 148th and 149th Street in Harlem. There was a shed consisting of three adjacent bays among several layup tracks. Today this site is occupied by the "Harlem–148th Street" terminal of the "3" service.
context_page_description: The New York City Transit Authority operates a total of 24 rail yards for the New York City Subway system. There are 10 active A Division yards, 11 active B Division yards, two shared yards, one yard for the Staten Island Railway, and two non-revenue equipment yards. Of these yards, rolling stock are assigned to seven A Division yards and seven B Division yards. Within the yards are 14 maintenance and cleaning facilities, and two yards perform heavy maintenance and overhaul.
context_section_description: Lenox Yard, formerly the Lenox Avenue Shops, is located near 148th Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem. This 22 track yard is only used for storage of the R62s that operate on the 3 service, and has no maintenance facility, although the yard had been the first overhaul shop for the IRT when it opened with the rest of the new subway in 1904. The original IRT subway cars were lowered from the street via inclines into the yard, where they continued into the West Side Main Line. On September 9, 1958 the Transit Authority announced that it was planning to abandon the Lenox Avenue Shops. All IRT and IND repairs would then be done at the 207th Street Shops by June 1959. The TA estimated that this would result in a saving of $1 million a year. Formerly extending between 147th and 150th Streets, in the 1960s the yard was downsized from 26 acres to seven acres, which eliminated the repair shops and NYCT offices. The land was sold to a developer. Around that time, a public school building (currently housing Frederick Douglass Academy) and the Esplanade Gardens apartment complex were constructed on pilotis above the formerly open-air yard. Two tracks were taken from the yard for the Harlem–148th Street station, which opened in 1968 as the current northern terminal for the 3.
caption: Lenox Yard in 1902
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