Mt Eden Avenue is a simple Jerome Avenue elevated station with two side platforms for the 3 track line with the middle express track only used in regular service by Uptown trains terminating at Burnside Avenue, running non-stop from 167 Street at the ends of the rush hours (to be fumigated of passengers on the middle track) before deadheading up the middle track to the Mosholu Yard. No Downtown trains reverse this pattern, all run local.
The Mt. Eden Avenue Station was closed for a rehabilitation from approximately March 27 to June 31, 2004 (if the dates were the same as 167 Street). The station is a typical IRT elevated station with windscreens and canopies (before the station's 2004 closure there were only the canopy skeletons due to rehabilitation, and the windscreens consisted of the blue plywood) on two side platforms. Today the windscreens are green.
The canopies cover the middle portion of the platforms with the ends exposed to the elements. The ends of the platforms are slightly offset from each other (about half a car length) with the Downtown platform running more north than the Uptown platform. The northern end of the station is over the Cross-Bronx Expressway that crosses under Jerome Avenue in a trench, with on ramps to Jerome Avenue.
Passengers leave the station via two sets of staircases in the middle of each platform, these lead down to doors into a small station house beneath the tracks, from here turnstiles face the token booth before doors lead out to a single streetstair down (leading in opposite directions) to each side of Jerome Avenue. One leads to the SE corner of Jerome Avenue and Mt Eden Avenue, the other leads slightly south of this intersection.
Photo 1-7: March 23, 2004; 8-19: January 6, 2011
A Mt Eden Av sign on blue plywood
A Mount Eden Avenue column sign on the canopy who's roof is missing, just before the station closes for a rehabilitation
An Uptown 4 train leaves Mt Eden Avenue
Looking down the platform, who's canopy roof is mostly missing, with Blue Plywood windscreens
A Mt Eden Av sign at one of the exposed ends of the platform
Looking down the Uptown platform towards the start of the platform's canopy
Looking across to the red framework of the missing canopy structure on the Uptown platform
Stepping off an Uptown 4 train at Mt Eden Avenue
An Uptown 4 train leaves Mt Eden Avenue
View of an On-Ramp to the Cross Bronx expressway from the Uptown platform
A Mt Eden Avenue platform sign on the exposed portion of the platform
View off the Uptown platform of the Cross-Bronx Expressway in a deep cut and the high embankment of the Grand Concourse, where the B and D trains actually cross above the Cross Bronx Expressway, tucked beneath the high arch of the Grand Concourse
Heading down a staircase to the station house
View of the street, through the fence at the edge of the lower staircases (this fencing has the same design as some of the fare control fencing
The streetstair from the SE corner of Jerome Avenue and Mt Eden Avenue
Looking under the elevated towards the station house, two staircase provide access to the street, each staircase fingering out in the opposite direction
Sign for the Cross Bronx Expressway at Street level just beyond the ends of the station platforms
Last Updated: August 31, 2023
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