174 Street
174 Street was the first station on the lower White Plains Road line to be renovated, and was closed for renovations from July to November 2003. When I first started this website in earnest I wrote “it looks different then every other station on the route with the new white windscreen and black fencing.” Today it is like every other station (although black for fencing seems to have gone out of style for the more recent renovations with green the more prominent color) except Intervale Avenue.
The station has two side platforms for the three track line, with the middle express track used by peak hour 5 trains to bypass the station. These platforms both have a single fare control area directly on the middle of each platform. The station houses are located in the middle of a gentle curve (the entire station is located on a curve) as trains curve from Southern Blvd to Boston Road to continue north. The middle of the platforms are canopied and noticeably wider than the platform extensions at each end of the station.
For exits, the 241/Dyre-bound platform has doors leading into a tiny fare control area before streetstairs lead down on the eastern side of the fare control area to the NE and SE corners of 174 Street and Boston Road. (the one at the SE corner looks back to be closer to the corner at an intermediate landing) the other goes straight out down 174 Street.
The Manhattan-bound platform has doors into the station house with the token booth and turnstiles, two streetstairs lead down, behind the station house to the west side of Southern Blvd/Boston Road as these two streets cross (and 174 Street ends) at a not normally angled intersection. There is no street passing between these two streetstairs.
1 & 2: January 25, 2004; 3-5: December 12, 2004; 6-9: June 13, 2005; 10- 3-12: March 24, 2007; 13-35: January 3, 2011;
Arts For Transit at 174 Street
A Trip Up the Bronx River, 2004
Faceted glass murals
By Daniel Del Valle
