St Lawrence Av (6) - The SubwayNut

Morrison Avenue-Sound View (the current name on station) or is it Morrison Av-Soundview (as the subway map and automated announcements say) Morrison-Sound View Avenues (the name on all the platform signs until the 2010 renovations) is a station whose name keeps changing since it opened in 1920 with the original name Sound View Avenue. The station is a typical Westchester Avenue station with two side platforms for the 3-track line. It is skipped by 6 Express trains that only operate in the peak direction, meaning that during the reverse-peak direction the station receives more frequent service than the peak direction.

The station platforms are canopied over their midsections and exposed to the elements for about two car lengths at each end. They are ever so slightly offset from each other, about 20 feet, with Pelham-bound trains stopping slightly farther southwest than Manhattan-bound trains. The canopied portions of the platform have cream with green trim colored windscreens (these replaced corrugated cream-colored windscreens in the 2010 renovations). Small green columns hold up the windscreens, some of these have signs that say Sound View. The exposed portions of the platform have black fencing that looks original and I believe wasn't replaced during the station's rebuilding

The platforms have a single set of two staircases in the middle of each platform. These down to a mezzanine with two separate banks of two turnstiles, and the token booth in between them. From here, three streetstairs lead out to the NE, SE, and SW corners of Morrison Avenue and Westchester Avenue.
Photos 1-14: October 5, 2005; 15-28: June 10, 2011; 29-38: October 7, 2018;

A Parkchester-bound R142A 6 local train leaves St Lawrence Avenue about to terminate.

Looking down the Pelham-bound platform at St Lawrence Avenue.

'St. Law' is the name on the column signs.

Looking down the staircase to the typical mezzanine fare control area at St Lawrence Avenue typical of the later 1920s elevated stations

The simple fare control area at St Lawrence Avenue with a cross-under

R142A #7545 leads a Pelham-bound 6 Express Train screaming through and bypassing St Lawrence Avenue

R142A #7395 at the back of a Pelham-bound 6 Express train that has skipped St Lawrence Avenue on the center track

R142A #7395 the last car of a Pelham-bound 6 Express train runs down the middle track of the Westchester Avenue elevated just after St Lawrence Avenue.

Looking of the elevated structure towards the end of the platform at St. Lawrence Avenue where the only protection is a low, black fence

R142A #7525 leads a Brooklyn Bridge-bound train down the Westchester elevated Line

R142A #7525 approaches St Lawrence Avenue

Getting off at the renovated St. Lawrence Avenue station

Looking across to the opposite platform at St. Lawrence av

At St. Lawrence Av platform sign

At one end of one of the platforms is space for advertising (the panels that don't have the green line)

A service sign for 6 To Pelham Bay Park E177 St-Parkchester (E117 St was dropped from the station's name within a year of this sign being installed, during the renovation)

Two staircases off the platform to St. Lawrence Av & Westchester Av