Brook Avenue
Brook Avenue is an underground local stop on the IRT Pelham Line in the South Bronx. Like the other intermediate underground stops between 3 Avenue-138 Street and Hunts Point Avenue, the station receives service more service in the reverse-peak direction (when all trains run local) during rush hours and middays, compared to the peak-direction when all trains from Pelham Bay Park in the morning and all trains to Pelham Bay Park in the afternoon skip the station. During peak-direction rush hours and middays only local 6 trains to or from Parkchester stop at the station.
The station itself has two side platforms for the 3-track line with the middle track used by <6> Express trains to bypass the station. Each platform has a single exit in the middle of the platform. Turnstiles are directly along each platform and no cross-over or cross-under meaning there is no change of directional transfer. The uptown platform has regular turnstiles that have been unstaffed since the token booth was removed in 2010 to 2011. From here two streetstairs leads up, one to each corner to the SW and SE corners of Brook Avenue and 138 Street. The Downtown platform still contains a token booth with streetstairs leading up, one to each corner to the NW and NE corners of Brook Avenue and 138 Street.
The middle half of each platform has a line of yellow columns that say Brook Avenue at regular intervals. The platform walls have a geometric Vickers-era design of Blue and Green diamonds with scarlet red and yellow borders. There are name tablets at regular intervals with white lettering saying Brook Ave on a green background with a yellow border. The ends of the platforms get narrower and lack columns, with the extreme ends of the platforms where they were extended in the early 1960s having a small section of 1960s tiling with tall tan rectangular blocks and a blue trimline with Brook Ave. written on it in white.
Photo 1-4: February 28, 2005; 5-22: June 10, 2011;
