Tremont Avenue (B,D) - The SubwayNut

Tremont Avenue is an Express station served by all trains on the Concourse Subway Line, with three tracks and two island platforms. Peak Direction rush hour Express D trains stop on the middle track opening their doors to the platform operating in the direction the train is traveling.

The station was the only station on the Concourse line (other than 161 Street-Yankee Stadium) to have a rehabiltion before 2016 with this occuring in 2000 as a plaque says on the mezzanine wall. The renovated station had it's wall tiles replaced which have the same colored maroon trim with a narrow black border on the platform walls and maroon pillars. "Tremont" is written one line under the trim in an unusual font that only seems to be duplicated at Canal Street on the 8th Avenue Line, which was renovated during a similar time period.

The station once opened with a full length mezzanine connecting both station exits but during the renovation the mezzanine was fully split into two with each exit at each end of the station having two staircases down to each platform in a small mezzanine area within fare control with access to the rest of the mezzanine walled off, although an emergency use staircase leads up from the middle of each platform to it. Peeping up, light is visible illiminating the closed mezzanine as well as blue pillars, not the maroon ones that line the platforms.

The full time station entrance is located at the southern end of the station, here the turnstiles lead short passageways east and west that have short intermediate staircasese before streetstairs lead up to the NE, NW and SW corners of the Grand Concourse and Eco Place. There is also a short turnnel that is closed off by a door that once led to the northern footpath of the Tremont Avenue underpass beneath Fordham Road, with this entrance closed there are no exits directly to Tremont Avenue, just one block north at Echo Place. Today the roadways have been widened in the Tremont Avenue underpass removing the sidewalks and the walls rebuilt removing any evidence of the former subway entrance.

The secondary station exit is at the northern end of the platforms, here the small still open to the public mezzanine area contains three High Entrance/Exit Turnstiles and short passageways (with intermediate staircases) to the NE and SW corners of 179 Street and the Grand Concourse
Photos 1 & 7-13: February 10, 2007; 2-6: July 29, 2004; 14 & 15: January 3, 2011

Modern 'Tremont' lettering in the under the maroon Tremont Av

Sign on the conductors board for the Express track to only open on this side for Northbound trains, there is also a note for R-1-9 and R10 Trains to Momentary SW. ON, this note is old. None of these old train cars have run in revenue service since 1989

Spray paint describing where new holding lights will go on the center track at Tremont Av

New holding lights that have been hung at Tremont Av, these still have bubble wrap on them.

Looking down the center track by at Tremont Av

Looking down the tactile warning strip at Tremont Av

The center express track at Tremont Av

The closed/ghost meshed off staircase to the rest of the now split mezzanine at Tremont Av

Looking down the northbound platform at Tremont Av

The northern mezzanine at Tremont Avenue for the exit to 179 Street

The two staircases that lead from the northern mezzanine to the Concourse-platform at Tremont Av

A number of modern 'T's exist on a unique purple trim on the mezzanine at Tremont Av, the designers of the station rehabilitation seem to be barrowing from the BMT with these Ts

A mezzanine mosaic for 'West Side of Concourse and Echo Place' at Tremont Av

The service sign board for the 205 St & Bedford Pk via local track D except PM rush hours to 205 St. B To Bedford Park Blvd rush hours

Plaque for the station’s rehabilitation in 2000, Governor Pataki and Rudy need to be remembered