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138th Street – Grand Concourse (IRT Jerome Avenue Line)

138th Street–Grand Concourse
"4" train "5" train
New York City Subway rapid transit station
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Street entrances
Station statistics
Address East 138th Street & Grand Concourse
Bronx, NY 10451
Borough The Bronx
Locale Mott Haven
Coordinates 40°48′47″N 73°55′48″W / 40.81303°N 73.929963°W / 40.81303; -73.929963Coordinates: 40°48′47″N 73°55′48″W / 40.81303°N 73.929963°W / 40.81303; -73.929963
Division A (IRT)
Line IRT Jerome Avenue Line
Services       4 all except rush hours, peak direction (all except rush hours, peak direction)
      5 all except late nights (all except late nights)
Transit connections Bus transport NYCT Bus: Bx1, Bx33
Structure Underground
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 3
Other information
Opened July 17, 1918; 99 years ago (1918-07-17)
Station code 391
Wireless service Wi-Fi and cellular service is provided at this station
Former/other names Mott Haven Avenue
Traffic
Passengers (2015) 1,056,380 Increase 2.2%
Rank 349 out of 422
Station succession
Next north 149th Street–Grand Concourse (Jerome): 4 all except rush hours, peak direction
149th Street–Grand Concourse (White Plains): 5 all except late nights
Next south 125th Street: 4 all except rush hours, peak direction 5 all except late nights

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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