219 Street is a local stop on the White Plains Road Line that has been recently renovated in the mid-2000s. The station has two side platforms as a local stop on the three tracked line. These platforms are canopied with green- and cream-colored windscreens for their midsections with plenty of sections of mesh allowing views down to the surrounding streets. The end of the platforms are exposed platforms with about a four-foot-high fence with white lampposts on them towards each end. Before station renovations the stop was fully windscreened so the surrounding neighborhood couldn't be seen at all.
To exit the station two staircases, lead down to decent sized station house beneath the track. There are two High Exit Only Turnstiles next to the staircases down from the Wakefield-bound platform followed by the token booth on the outside of fare controls fence followed by the bank of 3 turnstiles. Most of the walls of the station house for the 3 sides that are outside of fare control have glass windows allowing natural light to enter the building. Exits from the station are to doors out directly from the station house to wide street stairs catty-corner to each other at the NW and SE corners of 219 Street and White Plains Road.
Photos 1-8: December 18, 2004; 9-21: January 3, 2011;
Looking down the platform at 219 Street
Looking down the old fashioned platform endge warning strip at 219 Street.
A coloumn sign at 219 Street.
Looking down the 219 Street station platforms.
R142 #6530 on a downtown 2 train enters 219 Street
R142 #6440 on a downtown 2 train leaves 219 Street
A Wakefield-bound R142 2 train approaches 225 Street, it is operating on the middle track, about to switch over, because of temperary platforms in use south of Gun Hill Road so northbound trains are running on the middle track until just before 219 Street
A Wakefield-bound R142 2 train switches from the center to the local track just before 219 Street
Looking across to one of two 219 Street station entrances
Approaching the station house nestled under the elevated over an intersection
Loooking down 219 Street at the station house with windows overlooking the street nestled under the platform
A 219 Street sign and globe on a streetstair
Approaching one of two sets of doors into the station
On the mezzanine walkway to enter the station
The area outside of fare control, the token booth is next to the turnstiles
MVMs and the token booth next to them
Looking down the renovated platform
Looking down the platform south towards Gun Hill Road nad the switches to the express track just south of the station at the start of the now abandoned fyover that was the junction at the northern end of the 3rd Avenue elevated
The High Exit Turnstiles to leave the Wakefield-bound platform
Passengers wait for a Manhattan-bound 2 train
Last Updated: December 15, 2023
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