Parkchester station

The Parkchester station (also the Parkchester–East 177th Street station) is an express station on the IRT Pelham Line of the New York City Subway. It is located above Hugh J. Grant Circle in the Parkchester neighborhood of the Bronx, where East 177th Street (the Cross Bronx Expressway service road), Metropolitan Avenue, and Westchester Avenue intersect. The station is served by the 6 train at all times and the <6> train during weekdays in the peak direction.
By passenger count, Parkchester was the third-busiest station in the Bronx in 2017, behind 161st Street–Yankee Stadium and Third Avenue–149th Street, and the busiest station on the Pelham Line.
==History==
Parkchester station opened on May 30, 1920.
This station was rehabilitated in 2010.
In 2019, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced that this station would become ADA-accessible as part of the agency's 2020–2024 Capital Program.
== Station layout ==
PPlatform level	Southbound local 	← toward ()
PPlatform level	Island platform 	Island platform
PPlatform level	Peak-direction express	← AM rush toward () PM rush toward () →(No service: Pelham Bay Park) →
PPlatform level	Island platform 	Island platform
PPlatform level	Northbound local 	PM rush termination track → toward other times () →
M 	Mezzanine 	Station agent, MetroCard vending machines, fare control
G 	Street level 	Exit/entrance
Parkchester is an express station with three tracks and two island platforms. The 6 stops on the outer local tracks while the <6> stops on the center express track. There are 1950s-style mushroom-shaped lights at the end of the platforms and the staircases to the mezzanine are sheltered. 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 <6> express trains operate, 6 local trains terminate here. After discharging passengers on the northbound local track, terminating trains use the center track past switches north of the station as a pocket track to relay.
All trains continuing on the IRT Pelham Line north of this station make all subsequent stops, these stations are only served by the <6> in the peak direction when it is operating, and the 6 at all other times.
===Exit===
The station's only exit is a mezzanine in the center of the Hugh Grant Circle, a traffic circle. It has 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 fare control to the southbound platform, bypassing the mezzanine.
== Image gallery ==
File:Parkchester entrance vc.jpg|Entrance to Parkchester station
File:Old lamppost at Parkchester-East 177th Street Station.jpg|The lampposts at the station, which still read "E 177 ST"
File:Sunset at Parkchester.jpg|Facing a sunset on the Northbound local track.
File:NYCT R142A.jpg|alt=A number 6 train, consisting of R142A train cars, approaching the Parkchester station|An R142A 6 local train approaching Parkchester 
== References ==
== External links ==
* 
* nycsubway.org — Live the Dream Artwork (Artist and date unknown)
* Station Reporter — 6 Train
* Map of Bronx Subways
* The Subway Nut — Parkchester – East 177th Street Pictures
* Hugh Grant Circle (west) entrance from Google Maps Street View
* Hugh Grant Circle (east) entrance from Google Maps Street View
* Platforms from Google Maps Street View
Category:IRT Pelham Line stations
Category:New York City Subway stations in the Bronx
Category:New York City Subway stations located aboveground
Category:Railway stations in the United States opened in 1920
Category:1920 establishments in New York City
Category:Parkchester, Bronx