138th Street-Grand Concourse (IRT Jerome Avenue Line)
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138th Street–Grand Concourse
 
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| New York City Subway rapid transit station | |||||||||
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| Address | East 138th Street & Grand Concourse Bronx, NY 10451 |
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| Borough | The Bronx | ||||||||
| Locale | Mott Haven | ||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°48′47″N 73°55′48″W / 40.81303°N 73.929963°WCoordinates: 40°48′47″N 73°55′48″W / 40.81303°N 73.929963°W | ||||||||
| Division | A (IRT) | ||||||||
| Line | IRT Jerome Avenue Line | ||||||||
| Services |
4  (all except rush hours, peak direction) 5  (all except late nights) |
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| Transit connections |
 NYCT Bus: Bx1, Bx33
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| Structure | Underground | ||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||
| Tracks | 3 | ||||||||
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| Opened | July 17, 1918 | ||||||||
| Station code | 391 | ||||||||
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| Former/other names | Mott Haven Avenue | ||||||||
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| Passengers (2015) | 1,056,380  2.2% |
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| Rank | 349 out of 422 | ||||||||
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| Next north |
149th Street–Grand Concourse (Jerome): 4 149th Street–Grand Concourse (White Plains): 5
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| Next south |
125th Street: 4 5
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138th Street–Grand Concourse is a local station on the IRT Jerome Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the T intersection of East 138th Street and the Grand Concourse in the Bronx neighborhood of Mott Haven. It is served by the 4 train at all times except rush hours in peak direction and 5 train at all times except late nights on weekdays.
The underground station was opened on July 17, 1918, as Mott Haven Avenue station as a southbound extension of the Jerome Avenue Line into the Upper East Side extension of the IRT Lexington Avenue Line. As such, it is the newest station on the line. The segment north of Kingsbridge Road to Woodlawn opened three months earlier. It has two side platforms and three tracks, and is the only other station on the line to be built underground. The center express track is used by the 4 train during rush hours in the peak direction.
Both platform walls have their original mosaic trim line with "MH" tablets on it, a relic of the former name Mott Haven Avenue. The original name tablets are covered with black plates reading "138 Street" in white Akzidenz-Grotesk lettering. At either ends of the platform, where they were extended in the 1950s, the walls have a blue trim with "138TH ST" in white lettering. Blue i-beam columns run along both platforms at regular intervals with alternating ones having the standard black number plates in white lettering. Until 1972, it had a connection to the 138th Street Station which served both the Harlem and Hudson Divisions of the New York Central Railroad.
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