Cypress Avenue (6) - The SubwayNut

Cypress 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 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 at the extreme eastern (railway northern) end 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. The Downtown platform still contains a token booth. From each platform two streetstairs leads up each side of 138 Street between Cypress Avenue and Jackson Avenue (right next to Bruckner Boulevard and the Bruckner Expressway). Streetstairs to the Downtown platform are along the north side of the street, Uptown platform the south side.

The eastern two-thirds of each platform have yellow columns before the platforms become narrower. The platform walls have a square design of a yellow trim line, with an orange inner border, tiny blue diamonds on a green background middle-border, followed by a solid green line outer border. These are interrupted by a three-step pattern of C mosaic letters on a blue background, followed by two orange triangles on a blue background with an orange and green (with green triangles) border.

There are name tablets at regular intervals with white lettering saying Brook Ave on a Blue background with a yellow inner and green outer border. The extreme western ends of each platform, where they were extended in the early 1960s, have a small section of 1960s tiling with tall light green rectangular blocks and a green trimline with Cypress Ave written on it in white.
Photos 1-4: December 28, 2006; 5-21: June 10, 2011;

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A name tablet at Cypress Avenue

Looking down the long platform at Cypress Avenue, the single station exit is at the northern end of the platform.

A Uptown 6 train enters Cypress Avenue

Looking down the platform at Cypress Avenue, an Uptown 6 train comes to a stop in the station

Stepping off a stopping 6 train, R142A #7301 has a nice more modern lime green platform wall, the rest of the platforms have Vickers colorful tiles

Cypress lettering on white on a green background on the platform extension

Reaching the end of the one-car long platform extension where the historic tiling begins

Looking across to the opposite platform through the middle express track

A Cypress Ave. name tablet

Trash piled up on the platform, outside of the trash bins, there not at the end of the platform where its too narrow but were the columns begin

A Cy-press column sign

The platform trim, diamonds alternate with C's

Approaching the exit at the back of the Downtown platform

Sign to save time today, buy tokens tomorrow

The turnstiles across from the one token booth at Cypress Avenue

Approaching the Manhattan-bound platform entrance, from a streetstair beyond the end of the platform

One of two streetstairs to the Manhattan-bound platform with a very old 6 (the size ratio isn't the current ratio)

A streestair for Uptown only to Pelham Bay Park with the Bruckner Expressway in the background

A street stair with an older sign for Cypress Av Sta, to Pelham Bay Pk it a larger font than the other streetstair, but a smaller 6 on the Green Bullet

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