Burnside Avenue (IRT Jerome Avenue Line)

Burnside Avenue
New York City Subway rapid transit station
View south from northbound platform
Station statistics
Address	Burnside Avenue & Jerome Avenue Bronx, NY 10453
Borough	The Bronx
Locale	Morris Heights, University Heights
Coordinates	40°51′13″N 73°54′27″W / 40.853748°N 73.90739°W / 40.853748; -73.90739Coordinates: 40°51′13″N 73°54′27″W / 40.853748°N 73.90739°W / 40.853748; -73.90739
Division	A (IRT)
Line	IRT Jerome Avenue Line
Services	4  (all times)
Transit connections	NYCT Bus: Bx32, Bx40, Bx42
Structure	Elevated
Platforms	2 island platforms cross-platform interchange
Tracks	3
Other information
Opened	June 2, 1917 (99 years ago) (1917-06-02)
Former/other names	Burnside Avenue–180th Street Burnside Avenue–New York University
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	3,641,720  2.3%
Rank	143 out of 425
Station succession
Next north	183rd Street (local): 4  Woodlawn (express): no regular service
Next south	176th Street (local): 4  149th Street–Grand Concourse (express): no regular service
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times
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Burnside Avenue is an express station on the IRT Jerome Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Burnside and Jerome Avenues in the Bronx, it is served by the 4 train at all times.

It also serves as a rush hour short turn northern terminal for select 4 trains from Crown Heights–Utica Avenue; they usually arrive at the Woodlawn bound platform on the express track and then run light to the Mosholu Yard.

Burnside Avenue is the only express station (with three tracks and two island platforms) on the elevated portion of the Jerome Avenue Line. The only other express station on the Jerome Avenue Line is the underground 149th Street–Grand Concourse station.

Four exits lead from the mezzanine to either southern corner of Burnside and Jerome Avenues (two to each corner). There are extra side exits from the wooden mezzanine near the stairs to the platform, and the station is three to four stories above street level.

Burnside Avenue first opened as Burnside Avenue–New York University on June 2, 1917, which is further noted by the fact that New York University had a Bronx campus located northwest of the station; the neighborhood that developed there became known as University Heights before NYU sold its campus to the City University of New York under a threat of imminent bankruptcy in 1973. CUNY then acquired it to be used for the Bronx Community College, which would move its operations from the Bronx High School of Science during the Fall semester of that year to the NYU Bronx campus.