176 Street
176 Street is a simple Jerome Avenue elevated station with two side platforms for the 3 track line. The middle express track is only used in regular service by Uptown trains terminating at Burnside Avenue, running non-stop from 167 Street at the ends of the rush hours (to be fumigated of passengers on the middle track) before deadheading up the middle track to the Mosholu Yard. No Downtown trains reverse this pattern, all run local.
Each platform is canopied in their mid-sections with the ends of the platforms exposed with just a low-lying fence. The station was closed for a rehabilitation from July 5, 2004 for approximately 4 months, this project replaced the former corrugated metal-looking windscreens with the modern green and cream windscreens and also installed a tactile warning strip and public art.
To leave the station passengers go down two staircases in the middle of each platform to a station house. Inside the small station house are turnstiles and two streetstairs, one down to the SE corner of 176 Street and Jerome Avenue, this section of 176 Street ends at a T-intersection. The other leads down to the opposite side of Jerome Avenue farther to the south near a flight of streetstairs that are a pedestrian-only continuation of 176 Street and Jerome Avenue up to Davison Avenue, before another two-block section of 176 Street (that resumes allowing vehicular traffic) begins.
Just north of the station house (across from the T-intersection with 176 Street) is a brick building with no windows. A concrete bridge leads across the sidewalk to the underside of the elevated tracks, with wire conduits sitting along them. This is a substation that helps deliver power for the New York City Subway's third rail. It has silver lettering that says “N.Y.C. Transit System”.
1 & 2: December 19, 2003; 3-6: June 10, 2004; 7-16: February 10, 2007; 17-24: January 6, 2011; 25: June 8, 2014;
