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The 149th Street–Grand Concourse station is a New York City Subway station complex shared by the IRT Jerome Avenue Line and the IRT White Plains Road Line.It is located at East 149th Street and Grand Concourse in Mott Haven, Melrose and Concourse in the Bronx.
Just after 149th Street–Grand Concourse, the tracks split off and the two currently used by the 5 train turn south to merge with the local tracks of the IRT Jerome Avenue Line. The other tracks, currently used by the 2 train, pass under the Harlem River via the 149th Street Tunnel and end at the at-grade 142nd Street Junction, connecting to ...
Some stations, such as East 143rd Street and East 149th Street on the Pelham Line and East 180th Street on the White Plains Road Line, have directional prefixes to differentiate from other stations in the same borough: namely the 143rd Street station of the Third Avenue Line; the 149th Street–Grand Concourse and Third Avenue–149th Street ...
On weekdays, 2 trains ran via the IRT Lexington Avenue Line between 149th Street–Grand Concourse and Nevins Street uptown from 5:00 a.m. to midnight and downtown from midnight to 5:00 a.m. [26] On October 3, 1999, the 2 began running local in Manhattan during late night hours so local stations would receive service every ten minutes. [27]
Though named for Jerome Avenue, the southernmost portion of the line runs underground beneath the Grand Concourse. North of the 149th Street station around the vicinity of Franz Sigel Park, the line curves to the northwest and emerges from a tunnel under Gerard Avenue north of East 153rd Street, and becomes an elevated line over River Avenue ...
The station opened on July 10, 1905, along with the 149th Street–Grand Concourse station and the connection with the IRT Lenox Avenue Line in Manhattan. Free transfers were provided between the subway and the existing 149th Street elevated station of the IRT Third Avenue Line, which opened in 1887.
Later that morning a 25-year-old subway rider was attacked in the Bronx, suffering multiple stab wounds after getting into a beef with a stranger aboard a 5 train near the Grand Concourse and East ...
149th Street–Grand Concourse: 149th Street–Grand Concourse: IRT Jerome Avenue Line 4 The station became a transfer station when the Jerome Avenue Line opened in 1917. The upper-level Jerome Avenue platforms and the lower-level White Plains Road platforms are perpendicular to each other. 149th Street–Grand Concourse: IRT White Plains Road Line