Burke Avenue (IRT White Plains Road Line)
Burke Avenue  | |||||||||
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| New York City Subway rapid transit station | |||||||||
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Southbound platform | |||||||||
| Station statistics | |||||||||
| Address |
Burke Avenue & White Plains Road Bronx, NY 10467 | ||||||||
| Borough | The Bronx | ||||||||
| Locale | Allerton | ||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°52′16″N 73°52′01″W / 40.871°N 73.867°WCoordinates: 40°52′16″N 73°52′01″W / 40.871°N 73.867°W | ||||||||
| Division | A (IRT) | ||||||||
| Line | IRT White Plains Road Line | ||||||||
| Services |
2  (all times) 5  (rush hours, peak direction) | ||||||||
| Transit connections |
 NYCT Bus: Bx39 MTA Bus: BxM11 | ||||||||
| Structure | Elevated | ||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||
| Tracks | 3 | ||||||||
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| Opened | March 3, 1917 | ||||||||
| Traffic | |||||||||
| Passengers (2015) |
1,139,826[1]  1.6% | ||||||||
| Rank | 348 out of 422 | ||||||||
| Station succession | |||||||||
| Next north |
Gun Hill Road: 2 5 | ||||||||
| Next south |
Allerton Avenue: 2 5 | ||||||||
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Burke Avenue is a local station on the IRT White Plains Road Line of the New York City Subway. Located in the Bronx at the intersection of Burke Avenue and White Plains Road, it is served by the 2 train at all times, and the 5 train during rush hours in the peak direction.
Station layout
| P Platform level |
Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
| Southbound local | ← toward Flatbush Avenue – Brooklyn College (Allerton Avenue) ← toward Flatbush Avenue – Brooklyn College (AM rush) (Allerton Avenue) | |
| Peak-direction express | → No regular service | |
| Northbound local | → toward 241st Street (Gun Hill Road) → → toward Nereid Avenue (PM rush) (Gun Hill Road) → | |
| Side platform, doors will open on the right | ||
| M | Mezzanine | Station agent, MetroCard vending machines, fare control |
| G | Street Level | Exit / Entrance |
This elevated station, opened on March 3, 1917, has three tracks and two side platforms. It was renovated in 2004-05 at a cost of approximately $12.2 million USD.
Both platforms have beige windscreens and red canopies with green outlines, frames, and support columns in the center and black, waist-high steel fences at either ends with lampposts at regular intervals. The windscreens have mesh fences at various points. The station signs are in the standard black name plates with white lettering.
This station has one elevated station house beneath the center of the platforms and tracks. Two staircases from each platform go down to a waiting area. The back of the token booth faces this crossunder with a steel fences on either side. On the Wakefield-bound side, there are two exit only turnstiles. On the Manhattan-bound side, there is an emergency gate and a bank of three turnstiles. Outside fare control, two staircases go down to the northwest and southeast corners of Burke Avenue and White Plains Road. The station house has windows.
The 2006 artwork here is called Bronx Literature by Béatrice Coron. It consists of stained glass panels on the platform windscreens featuring scenes from various works of literature written by four authors, Sholom Aleichem, James Baldwin, Nicholasa Mohr, and Edgar Allan Poe, all of whom have lived in or wrote about the Bronx.
References
- ↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Burke Avenue (IRT White Plains Road Line). |
- nycsubway.org—IRT White Plains Road Line: Burke Avenue
- nycsubway.org — Bronx Literature Artwork by Béatrice Coron (2006)
- Station Reporter — 2 Train
- The Subway Nut — Burke Avenue Pictures
- MTA's Arts For Transit — Burke Avenue (IRT White Plains Road Line)
- Burke Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
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