Longwood Avenue (6) - The SubwayNut

Longwood 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 2011. From here two streetstairs leads up, one to each corner to the NE and SE corners of Longwood Avenue and Southern Blvd. The Downtown platform still contains a token booth with streetstairs leading up, one to each corner to the NW and NE corners of Longwood Avenue and Southern Blvd.

The station entrance is towards the middle of each platform, lime green columns line the entire station except for one section of the Uptown platform which is column-less. The platform walls have a square Vickers-era design of mainly green with some mustard yellow trimline. White L's line it at regular intervals. There are name tablets at regular intervals with white lettering saying Longwood Ave on a blue background with a green and mustard 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: December 19, 2003; 2-5: February 28, 2005; 6-21: June 10, 2011;

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A rare platform column at Longwood Avenue

Looking down the white tiled wall at the extream end of the uptown platform at Longwood Avenue, R142A #7241 of a Parchester-bound 6 train is leaving the station

A name tablet at Longwood Avenue, white text on a blue background with a green border

Only half of the platforms at Longwood Avenue has platform pillars the rest of the platforms are narrower with none

'L' mosaics in the platform trim at Longwood Avenue.

1960s white text on a Blue trimline in the extension portion of the station

The 1960s extension followed by the original platform with a piece of metal seperating them

A Longwood Ave name tablet

An MVM in the distance and old sign for the Off Hours Speical Waiting area

A staircase off of the downtown platform side

The token booth is down a short passageway from one of the entrances

A street view at Longwood Avenue and Southern Blvd, subway entrances are on all 4 corners

An entrance (with old Standard font text) for the Longwood Av Station to Manhattan

A L'ng'w'od Av 6 Manh Braille sign on the narrow vertical beam of the a streestair

An entrance to Pelham Bay Park

A streetstair with a different generation of sign (more modern) that says Longwood Av Station, Uptown only To Pelham Bay Park

The Uptown platform's fare control area, the ghost of the former token booth is visible

A black bence outside the fare control area on the Uptown platform at Long-wood

A Long-wood column sign

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