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The IRT Dyre Avenue Line (formerly the IND Dyre Avenue–East 174th Street Line) is a New York City Subway rapid transit line, part of the A Division. It is a branch of the IRT White Plains Road Line in the northeastern section of the Bronx, north of East 180th Street. As of 2013, it has a daily ridership of 34,802. [1]
The Eastchester–Dyre Avenue station (signed as simply Dyre Avenue) is the northern terminal station of the IRT Dyre Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, at Dyre Avenue and Light Street (one block south of East 233rd Street) in the Eastchester neighborhood of the Bronx. It is served by the 5 train at all times.
2006 photograph from the Dyre Avenue platform with a train beneath the station approaching the East 180th Street-bound platform. Gun Hill Road station opened on May 29, 1912 as a local station of the New York, Westchester and Boston Railway (NYW&B). This station was closed on December 12, 1937 when the NYW&B went bankrupt. [4]
In the New York City Subway there are three types of terminal stations: Station where a train proceeds beyond the station, like at a non-terminal station, and returns to service on another track. Station with one or more tracks, often with bumper blocks at their end. A train terminates on all applicable tracks and changes direction.
Between Crown Heights–Utica Avenue and New Lots Avenue, 4 train operates during this time. [4] The 5 train runs late nights Eastchester-Dyre Avenue ↔ East 180th Street only. During rush hours, 5 train runs express between East 180th Street and Third Avenue–149th Street in the peak direction; this is the reason for the different intervals ...
Now the only permanent MetroCard subway-to-subway transfers are between the Lexington Avenue/59th Street complex (4, 5, 6, <6> , N, R, and W trains) and the Lexington Avenue–63rd Street station (F, <F> , N, Q, and R trains) in Manhattan and between the Junius Street (2, 3, 4, and 5 trains) and Livonia Avenue (L train) stations in Brooklyn.
Eastchester, Bronx Dyre Avenue and Light Street at Eastchester–Dyre Avenue ( train) Midland Avenue Kimball Avenue South Columbus Avenue: Service south of Cross County is now combined with the 55, forming a new east–west connection. Former service south of Cross County is merged with the 26 forming the new 106 route. 30: Yonkers Getty Square ...
The New York City Board of Transportation (BOT) bought the NYW&B within the Bronx north of East 180th Street in April 1940 for $1.8 million and rehabilitated the line. [5]: 59–60 On May 15, 1941, a shuttle service was implemented between Dyre Avenue and East 180th Street using IRT gate cars.