174th–175th Streets is a
local station on the IND Concourse
Line of the New York City
Subway; it is currently served by the and trains and is located
at the Grand Concourse
between East 174th and 175th Streets in the Bronx
.
This is a typically white-tiled
IND underground station with
support columns 3/4 to the edge of the platform from the back wall.
Its signage are formed from a mosaic of colored tiles with the
black tiles forming the black background, white tiles forming the
ordinal numbers and their letters and framed by tannish gold tiles
about half the size of the normal white tiles. Between the major
signage are groups of three normal size station tiles but black
with a single number to form "174" or "175" depending on the
location within the station. For the station's length a tannish
gold decorative line made up of normal sized tiles and bordered on
top and bottom with 1/3 size (height wise) black tiles. The station
is on a gently curving section of track, sharp enough so you cannot
actually see the opposite end of the platform if you are at the
other extreme end.
The 174th–175th Street station has three tracks and two side
platforms. Its fare control is located at the south end of the
station one level down and directly below the tracks with a
crossunder between directions. This leads to an exit on the north
side of 174th Street, between Walton and Morris Avenues, and
directly beneath the Concourse. Access to the Concourse is also
located in this area, with the only open exit being on the east
side (the exit on the west side of the Concourse is closed). The
north end fare control is located directly above 175th Street,
which crosses beneath the Concourse, and has exits on both sides
thereof. An exit in the underpass directly beneath the Concourse,
on the south side of 175th Street is still present, but is closed
to the public. Technically, the Concourse Line at this point is not
underground but in a totally enclosed tunnel that passes through a
hillside with the Grand Concourse at its summit.
This
station is located approximately three blocks east and one block
north of Mount Eden Avenue
( ) station on the IRT Jerome Avenue Line. Its
southern end is less than a block from the famed Bronx-Lebanon
Hospital Center on the Grand Concourse above.
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