Kingsbridge Road (4) - The SubwayNut

Kingsbridge Road is a Jerome Avenue elevated station, in the shadow of the large and unique looking Kingsbridge Armory. This is a very large brick building, with a very distinctive curved roof that was built to house a regiment of the New York National Guard. The roof towers over and behind the Downtown platform, giving the elevated station some of the most unique views on the subway system.

The station itself has two side platforms for the three-track line. The center middle track is unused in regular service, only used during G.O reroutes for track maintenance on one of the local tracks that results in all trains in one direction skipping the station. These platforms are canopied for most of their length, with exposed portions (with wired tall, full height platform fences) at each end. The station was renovated in 2006-2007 with the station fully closed for a few months. In this rebuilding, green and cream windscreens replaced the former corrugated-looking ones, this project also installed a tactile warning strip, rebuilt the station house and replaced all the staircases.

The station has a small mezzanine station house nestled under the tracks with fare control. The enter the station, there are four staircases, two down two each side of Jerome Avenue, two of these staircases lead down to the NW and NE corners of Kingsbridge Road and Jerome Avenue. The other two lead down to Jerome Avenue in the opposite direction facing north (midblock). The way the staircases enter the station house are different. The eastern two staircases upper landing for the station house are shared with the two streestairs sharing an upper landing, making the entrances closer to each other. The western staircases are farther apart, with separate landings, arriving at opposite corners of the station house. The station was built this way because Kingsbridge road's intersection is not a normal 90 degrees intersection with Kingsbridge Road, due to hills in the area, veering to the Southwest a little bit after crossing Jerome Avenue.
Photo 1: December 21, 2003; 2 & 3: April 7, 2004; 4-8: June 25, 2004; 9-21: January 6, 2011

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Bypassing Kingsbridge Road (4) in the center track on a Fan Trip.

Looking up at the station mezzanine and underpass at Kingsbridge Road

A staircase from street level up to the station at Kingsbridge Road

A station sign on the open area of the platform at Kingsbridge Road

A train leaves Kingsbridge Road/Jerome Avenue with the Kingsbridge armory in the background

A staircase from mezzanine to platform at Kingsbridge Road

A R142 enters Kingsbridge Road/Jerome Avenue.

R142 #1200 at Kingsbridge Road

Stepping off R142 #7757 at the renovated Kingsbridge Road, adds line portions of the green and cream windscreens

Frequent service, the next train to Utica Avenue is 7 minutes away

A bench between the two staircases down to the station house and Exit

Heading down a staircase to the station house, the station's Art is above the middle of each staircase

The enclosed walkway, after leaving the one set of doors into the station house, between the farther apart streestairs to the western side of Jerome Avenue

A Streetstair in the shadow of the armory

Under the station house and turrets of the armory

The station house is just north of the intersection of Kingsbridge Road, with space for a billboard (currently with nothing on it) attached to the station

Looking across to the Downtown platform and roof of the armory

Looking across the tracks at the staircases off the downtown platform, and the armory looming above the station

R142 #1241 leads a Downtown 4 train into Kingsbridge Road

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