225 Street
225 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 wind-screened so the surrounding neighborhood couldn't be seen at all.
To exit the station two staircases, slightly closer to the southern end of the platform, compared to the northern end, 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 225 Street and White Plains Road.
Photos 1-6: July 6, 2004
