170 Street (4) - The SubwayNut

170 Street is the southernmost stop above Jerome Avenue with trains shifting over to River Avenue just south of the station. The station has two side platforms for the 3 track line. The 170 Street station was closed for a rehabilitation from July 5, 2004 thorugh Fall 2004. The station is a typical IRT elevated station with windscreens and canopies (before the station's 2004 closure there were only the canopies skeletons due to rehabilitation, and the windscreens consisted of the blue plywood) on two side platforms. Today the windscreens are green.

At The station has a small mezzanine with fare control that used to be much more cluttered and quite hard to navigate. During the rehabilitation period it was redesigned and is now much easier to navigate. The enter the station, passengers use one of three staircases one along the West side of Jerome Avenue in front of Keltch Park (between 170 Street and Elliot Place), two across the street, one to the NE corner and one midblock of Jerome Avenue and 170 Street. These lead into a station house were there is a single bank of turnstiles that lead to two staircases up to each platform in the middle of the mezzanine. The station house is beneath the middle of the platform.

The station was renovated again starting in 2020 to allow for the installation of 3 elevators, making this station a fully accessible station. A new street elevator was added, replacing the former staircase at the the NE corner of Jermome Avenue and 170 Street, resulting in just two remaning staircases up to the station house. New platform elevators were added right near the two platfrom staircases up to each platform. In addition new entrance staircases were added from each side of Jerome Avenue near the NW corner for Manhattan-bound trains, NE corner for Uptown Trains, of 170 Street, these staircases both lead up to a small on platform fare control area and were opened to provide incrased station capactiy to replace the capacity lost of needing to close a streetstair to add build the new street elevator. The new streetstairs and their respecitive fare control areas were bulit first (before elevator construction began) that resulted in capacity restrictions in the existing station house.
Photo 1-3: June 10, 2004; 5-7: August 15, 2005; 8: August 2, 2004; 9-12: February 10, 2007; 13-15: January 2, 2011; 16-24: January 6, 2011

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Looking down the northbound platform at 170 Street/Jerome Avenue, R142 #1187 is in the station

The state of 170th Street/Jerome Avenue just before closing for 3 months for rehabilitation, the windscreens are all plywood, the canopy is missing

Looking down the platforms at 170th Street/Jerome Avenue, R142A #7710 and a southbound 4 train is entering the station

R142A #7710 at 170th Street

R142A #7726 leaves 170 Street

train of R142As (#7726 is the last car) in the distance from 170 Street/Jerome Avenue are approaching Mt. Eden Avenue

Looking down the platform at 170 Street

A downtown R142A 4 train bypasses 170th Street/Jerome Avenue because of construction

A modern entrance to 170th Street at street level

Looking down the elevated platforms at 170th Street apartment buidings rise in the background

A Downtown R62 4 train approaches 170th Street

A Downtown R62 4 train enters 170th Street

Approaching the station from the west, a billboard isn't installed giving better views of the stained glass and wire mesh portions of the platform windscreens

There are two exit staircases from each platform

A flock of birds scatter around the station

A view of the station house (and all 3 station entrance staircases) from the street

One side of the station is along a parklet

An entrance staircase

Looking down 170 Street from the Uptown platform the underpass of 170 Street under the Grand Concourse and the namesake station on the D train is visible

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