The Parkchester 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.

Parkchester  ​
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
Platform level
Station statistics
Address	Hugh J. Grant Circle Bronx, NY 10472
Borough	The Bronx
Locale	Parkchester, Unionport
Coordinates	40°50′0″N 73°51′39.5″W
Division	A (IRT)[1]
Line	IRT Pelham Line
Services	6  (all times) <6>  (weekdays until 8:45 p.m., peak direction)​
Transit	NYCT Bus: Bx4, Bx4A, Bx11, Bx36, Bx39, Q44 SBS MTA Bus: BxM6[2]
Structure	Elevated
Platforms	2 island platforms cross-platform interchange
Tracks	3
Other information
Opened	May 30, 1920; 102 years ago (1920-05-30)[3]
Accessible	not ADA-accessible; accessibility planned
Opposite- direction transfer	Yes
Former/other names	Parkchester–East 177th Street East 177th Street–Parkchester East 177th Street
Traffic
2019	4,734,709[4]  2.1%
Rank	97 out of 424[4]
Services Preceding station New York City Subway Following station Castle Hill Avenue 6  <6> ​ toward Pelham Bay Park Express Hunts Point Avenue <6> toward Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall Local St. Lawrence Avenue 6  toward Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall
Non-revenue services and lines Preceding station New York City Subway Following station Pelham Bay Park express no service
Location Show map of New York City Subway Show map of New York City Show map of New York
Track layout Legend to Pelham Bay Park to Castle Hill Av to St. Lawrence Av to Hunts Point Av
Street map
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except rush hours in the peak direction Stops all times Stops rush hours in the peak direction only

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.[3]

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.[5]

Station layout

P Platform level	Southbound local	← toward Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall (St. Lawrence Avenue)
	Island platform
	Peak-direction express	← AM rush toward Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall (Hunts Point Avenue) → PM rush toward Pelham Bay Park (Castle Hill Avenue) → →(No service: Pelham Bay Park) →
	Island platform
	Northbound local	→ PM rush termination track → → toward Pelham Bay Park other times (Castle Hill Avenue) →
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.[6]

Image gallery

• 
  Entrance to Parkchester station
• 
  The lampposts at the station, which still read "E 177 ST"
• 
  Facing a sunset on the Northbound local track.
• 
  An R142A 6 local train approaching Parkchester

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Parkchester (IRT Pelham Line).

• nycsubway.org – IRT Pelham Line: East 177th Street/Parkchester
• 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