135 Street
135 Street is a Lenox Avenue station and where the 2 and 3 meet for their long-haul together all the way to Brooklyn. The station has two platforms and three tracks, the middle track is a siding used most recently for Late Night 3 shuttle trains until they were replaced with buses in 1998. The station has two side platforms with no crossover/under, which is a bit of a problem because passengers wishing to transfer between trains from the Bronx and the 3 to 148 Street must go all the way down to 110 Street the first station with a free change of direction transfer.
The station has one on platform entrance in each direction, with two elevators added, making the station ADA accessible that opened in 2008. The downtown platform contains the station's only token booth with streetstairs up to the NE and SE corners of 135 Street and Malcolm X Blvd (Lenox Aveune), along with an elevator up to the NE corner. The uptown platform is now unstaffed with the token booth removed in 2012, low-level turnstiles lead out to the NW and SW corners of 135 Street and Malcolm X Blvd (Lenox Aveune), along with an elevator up to the SW corner.
An interesting aspect of the station is that there are 3 different types of repersentations in the stations trim and molding, (original terra cotta cartouches, a mosaic representation of this and modern 135 lettering), and two different types of name tablets (original mosaics and one with a modern font and design that only exist here and it the sister stations along Lenox Avenue at 125th, and 116 Streets).
Photos 1-5: April 4, 2004; 6-15: May 24, 2010
