233 Street
233 Street is a stop on the White Plains Road Line with two side platforms for the three track line, the middle track not used in revenue service. The station was renovated in 2006 with three new elevators installed, as part of the renovation, making the station ADA accessible since it was part of one of the initial 100 Key Stations that were part of 1994 agreement with disability advocates to bring some accessibility to the subway.
The renovation gave the station the usual Green and Cream windscreens, found at all the other stations on the White Plains Road line that were renovated at about this time. The middle of each platform has a canopy and these cream with green accent windscreens. The ends of the platforms have been left to be exposed to the elements with white lampposts. the platforms are slightly offset from each other with the Manhattan-bound platform beginning slightly farther north of the Wakefield-bound platform.
To leave the station, about three-quarters of the way from the northern end the platforms two staircases lead down to an intermediate landing where above (under stained glass) the staircases combine into one shorter staircase down to the station house nestled beneath the tracks. The elevators to each platform are accessed via short passageways out to the south behind these staircases. This was done so that a support beam for each of the platform-mezzanine elevators could rest on the sidewalk and not in the middle of the intersection below. In the middle of the station house the fare control zone goes across the length of the mezzanine before leading out to covered streetstairs down to the SE axnd SW corners of White Plains Road and 233 Street. The street elevator has a short footbridge away from the station house, setting it back from the rest of the elevated station, it is at the SE corner of White Plains Road and 233 Street.
Photos 1-6: December 29, 2006;
Arts For Transit at 233 Street
A Secret Garden: There's No PLace Like Home, 2006, Faceted Glass
By Skowmon Hastanano
